Stealth Re: [FT] Fleet design (Was Re: Alarishi Home Page)

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For NI, a purely canon fleet would also dictate a doctrine change
from long range sniping to close-in armored knife fighting, mainly
because that's what I'd rather do if I didn't have stealth ships to play with.
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I haven't been following the stealth discussion; I figured the ideas were
pretty much covered under 'cloak'. However, I'm a little confused. Firing
doesn't negate stealth characteristics?

I always assumed that firing would light you up, and would make you a big
target. Rather than sniping and constantly negating your stealth, wouldn't you
use stealth to approach to allow
short range/powerful weopens a chance to devastate?

Now, if you wanted to invent 'sleeper missles' that could be dropped quietly
until the ship had a chance to move off...

The_Beast

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