Re-Doing Beam Batteries

Hi Guys,

An interesting way to beef up C batteries is to rescale all beam batteries.

        0-12    13-24   25-36   37-48
A       4       3       2       1
B       3       2       1
C       2       1

2A 8 6 4 2 2x3=6 mass 3B 9 6 3 3x2=6 mass 6C 12 6 6x1=6 mass

This makes 1 mass C batteries very ugly at short range, and B batteries
slightly better then A batteries on a per mass basis at short range. Of
course C batteries would lose anti-fighter capability.

I came up with this idea because I was sick of fighters guns having equal
range and firepower of C batteries. Please let me know what you think.

> Hi Guys,
Of
> course C batteries would lose anti-fighter capability.

Fighter weapons have always had only 6" range, to the 12" of a C battery. The
battery designations (not the rules or effects) have been changed for the
Fleet Book ("FT 2.5") anyhow, so the old C batt is now a Class 1, the B a
Class 2, A a Class 3; this now means you can also have Class 4 (which is the
same as your "enhanced A" suggestion above), Class 5 etc.