From: B Lin <lin@r...>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 14:11:58 -0500
Subject: Superships....
We've built the modular superships, with rules co-opted for making bases. One of the rules not taken was the transfer of damage from one section to another when it was destroyed. We reasoned that bases tend to be civilian in nature or that their funtions were designed for utility not suvivability first. Therefore military superships should be compartmentalized to minimize damage transfer between sections. Other modifications include allowing waveguns and a single nova cannon per section with shields being lowered only on the firing section. This makes superships capable of being tremendous firing platforms, capable of sustaining large amounts of damage. We've tried to limit the building of such ships by making construction times twice what they would bbe for building an equivalent mass in cruisers. Has anyone else played with modular superships?? --Binhan