On 2016-03-04 14:46, Kurt Feltenberger wrote:
> I've been thinking about how minor things (in the grand scheme of
> things) could change design, doctrine, tactics, and even strategy, and
> the one thing I kept returning to when it came to ship design was how
> you could Min/Max your ships with regards to spinal weapons (at least
> in CT and MT, I really don't know about the others) and how that drove
> purely statistical design.  So what happens to design when you remove
> them?  I added Meson and PA bay weapons as well, though I doubt that
> they'd have much of an impact whether they were there or not when
> facing other large capital ships.

If you are building to CT/MT rules, I'd say the ships will tend to get
smaller.  1 - 10 ktons will be a sweet spot; large enough to not suffer
automatic critical hits from turret weapons, small enough that 100% of
weapons are bearing.  Without spinal weapons, I don't see an incentive
to going big.

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Edward Swatschek - xxxxxx@bitslayer.net