On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 8:20 PM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Jeffrey Schwartz
> <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If the fancy missiles raise that to a 20% hit rate, you've (sort of)
>> added another ship to your side.
>>
>> So long as the missiles are cheaper than some percentage of another
>> ship (and it's associated operating costs), you're ahead.
>>
>> The Fancy Missiles also make a big difference in the effectiveness of
>> smaller ships.
>
>
>
> David Weber uses both these points in his Honorverse series. But even then
> more is still better, since Weber also deploys "pod dreadnoughts" . . .
> capital ships which are hollow armored containers for missile dispensers,
> designed with over-sized stardrives for towing enormous unpowered pods
> containing even MORE missile dispensers.
>
>>
>> I'd suspect the proportional difference is even more
>> pronounced there.
>
>
> Weber's Light Attack Craft and Super Light Attack Craft . . . waves of small
> ships which are deadly against lower-tech opponents but fairly useless
> against those with technical parity.
>

Dunno, LACs end up doing pretty well for themselves in the latter books
The Peep's developed tactics ("Triple Ripple") that let them us them
against the Manties