Re: The Beholder Imperium-- Ships and Technology of Beholderspace

>
> Just found this piece of mail in my 'holding pit' of postponed messages.
> Sorry it's kinda off the current topic.
>
> > Anyway I need some ideas for weaknesses that are somewhat logical to destroy
> > these monstrous ships.  Obviously a straight on fight is probably not going
> > to work unless it was  VERY large scale assualt.  A fleet battle would be
> > nothing less than a planetary invasion.
>
> Well, these things should be about as maneuverable as a wingless airplane.
> Have your entire opposing force target the weapons on one approach angle,
> and once they've destroyed those weapons, just do one attack run after
> another until the ship is destroyed.  You'd lose a ship or two to enemy
> fire while targetting the weapons (which of course leaves the battered
> ship as an unguided missile headed straight for the planet-killer!), but
> after the weapons are taken out you have a straight shot.  I would think
> that these planet-killers would get absolutely BUTCHERED once their
> support fleets are gone.

  They may not be manuverable but they are able to carry a lot of beholders
and gobs of equipment/ships/weapons on them.  On the scale these
planet-killers are on they don't have to be manuverable.


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> >    What do you think?
>
> What I think is that you should be playing Star Frontiers or Renegade
> Legion Leviathan and/or Interceptor.

  But I'm not. And that's not helping me.

   --steve