Fighting Ships

A thread of 2 messages, 31 May 1990 to 2 June 1990, in the order they were sent.

#1315 Fighting Ships

SULAIMAN · 31 May 1990

	Fighting Ships of the Imperium... Overview.


Biggest ripoff in GDW history. Proofreading is miserable and the ships
do not follow any of the rules in the book. Battleships are built at TLs
where the max comp does not have the CPs to control them. Armor is plated
in excess of all rules to the point of making the ships TOTALLY impervious
to damage. By Totally I mean you need a die roll of 15+ straight witha spinal'
mount on 2D6 to do damage!

Somebody appears to have gone Spreadsheet crazy on the ships as designs are
almost identical. Other flaws abound . No launch tubes for any ship even
though they are carrying 300+ fighters. Launch 1 fighter per turn.......

In my opinion save the $10.00 and build your own ships.

	Ameer Sulaiman.

#1320 Re: Fighting Ships

Paul Dale · 2 June 1990 · reply to #1315

hiya,

>	Fighting Ships of the Imperium... Overview.
>Battleships are built at TLs
>where the max comp does not have the CPs to control them. Armor is plated
>in excess of all rules to the point of making the ships TOTALLY impervious
>to damage. By Totally I mean you need a die roll of 15+ straight witha spinal'
>mount on 2D6 to do damage!
Actually a spinal meson gun will get through, and the big ships don't have
decent meson screens.  In fact one of the cruisers has a better chance of
survival than a dreadnaught because it has a decent meson screen.  I did
look at cruiser vs dreadnaught and came to the conclusion that mutual
destruction is the expected result (it was the cruiser with the spinal meson
gun vs the TL15 dreadnaught).

As an aside:
	The most powerful ship in the book is probably the experimental
	battleship carrying 3 battle riders.  4 Meson gun-T's packed in there!!

>
>Somebody appears to have gone Spreadsheet crazy on the ships as designs are
>almost identical. Other flaws abound . No launch tubes for any ship even
>though they are carrying 300+ fighters. Launch 1 fighter per turn.......

Hows about the tankers (I think) with more fuel tankage than available space?
Also many of the designs have more heads up displays than crew members!
(how do you try to rationalise that one???)

>
>In my opinion save the $10.00 and build your own ships.
I agree.



							Pauli
seeya
SNIF

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