Re: New helm being Submitted to Compendium

Downer, Chris wrote:
>
> Yes it is a serious question. I never liked the 100 ton rule and I know that
> others on this list have had ships in there campaigns that are above 100
> tons. I don't see 500 tons as being a "impossibly crazy amount" and with
> ship critical hits it is possable to cripple a large ship like this. You
> just have to keep in mind that the bigger the ship the more expensive.

        I've found that people generally ignore cost as a limitation.  It
doesn't matter if fleets cost more gold than entire worlds could
possibly produce, they just flat out ignore them in the persuit of the
'ultimate ship/faction/whatever'.

> So
> the nation building these ships may not have the funds to make a fleet of
> 500 ton ships. Hell they may not have the funds for many 100 ton ships. Also
> because they are not very manuverable (and large) they are suseptable to
> smaller (faster) ship attacks. They would make a great target for fighter
> attacks escpecially if the fighters had some fire based attacks.

        SJ doesn't really support fighters well, short of cheezing them out
with really expensive &/or home rules designed to make them more
powerful.  And a 500 ton ship is going to carry enough light weapons to
make sure the fighters aren't going to get close enough to use fire very
often, if ever.
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Adam Miller