Ships are going and new ones are coming in!

Siesatia · Post by **Siesatia** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 3:46 am

Heh, anyone spare a planet killer?

DemonLordEnigma · Post by **DemonLordEnigma** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 3:57 am

Don't need one. You see at the bottom, the missile launchers? You hit those and you pretty much take out the cannons near them. If those somehow survive, you send a small ship to strike the sweet spot between each pair of cannons and the only way he can hit you will destroy his own offensive installations at the same time.

Neo-Kalandria · Post by **Neo-Kalandria** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:10 am

With that wide array of guns, how exactly do you plan to get that close?

DemonLordEnigma · Post by **DemonLordEnigma** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:15 am

Easy. Small ships are much harder to hit. You keep them distracted with something bigger and badder, like maybe a fleet or a massive destroyer.

It's a question of what you are going to pay attention to. Most people are not going to pay attention to that one fighter.

Kanuckistan · Post by **Kanuckistan** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:42 am

DemonLordEnigma wrote:Easy. Small ships are much harder to hit. You keep them distracted with something bigger and badder, like maybe a fleet or a massive destroyer.

It's a question of what you are going to pay attention to. Most people are not going to pay attention to that one fighter.

Yes, and I'm sure they're going to fire their dinky little point-defence guns at capital assets when there's a target flying atound that they can actually hurt.

DemonLordEnigma · Post by **DemonLordEnigma** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:46 am

Kanuckistan wrote:
DemonLordEnigma wrote:Easy. Small ships are much harder to hit. You keep them distracted with something bigger and badder, like maybe a fleet or a massive destroyer.

It's a question of what you are going to pay attention to. Most people are not going to pay attention to that one fighter.
Yes, and I'm sure they're going to fire their dinky little point-defence guns at capital assets when there's a target flying atound that they can actually hurt.

So the plan needs a few adjustments. I'm just working off the picture and not any stats.

The Silver Turtle · Post by **The Silver Turtle** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:47 pm

Yes, I'd assume JJR has learnt from the Death Stars mistakes...

CorpSac · Post by **CorpSac** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 12:33 am

bah screw that i would just sit back a pound it with a SHRC (super heavy Rail cannon) that would take it out or at lest its shields...who knows never used a SHRC on a ship.

Jangle Jangle Ridge · Post by **Jangle Jangle Ridge** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:09 am

Of course, I'd love to see the look on your faces when your material weapons hit the static field and melt. And, of course, your energy weapons being deflected easily with multiple reflector shields. Also, once I add the 'tentacles' and finish it up, it will have more guns, and be slightly more tactically flexible. I'm not stupid.

Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:23 am

Jangle Jangle Ridge wrote:Of course, I'd love to see the look on your faces when your material weapons hit the static field and melt.

I'd simply smile and note that conservation of momentum still applies no matter if a railgun shot is a flying puddle or cohesive slug.

The slug still has the same momentum (.65-.75c in extreme cases, such as CF Capital ship railguns) so you still get owned.

Do not pass go, do not tentacle rape young nubile schoolgirls. (That's Mekanta's job)