[email removed] writes:
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>FS-???? Gibbon FS-0106611-D00000-05002-0 MCr15.611 8 tons
> batteries bearing 1 1 Crew=1
> batteries 1 1 TL=15
>Passengers=0 Low=0 Cargo=0 Fuel=0.04 EP=0.48 Agility=6
>The Ape class fighter, while small in stature more than makes up for its
>diminutive size with its blazing fusion gun, uncanny agility, and thick hide.
I hate to say it, but no it dosen't. Such a vessel would be useless for
anything other than planetary bombardment or beating up on free traders.
Even a large target with agility-0 and a TL15 computer could not be hit.
That's a very unlikely target, but it illustrates how futile it is to build
fighters that have no bridge and a comp mod 1. I have designed fighters at
TL 11 that could mop this TL 15 design up, and never take a single hit in
return. Of course, my fighter designs have a tendency to be somewhat costly,
but that's OK as you lose far less of them. Against an opponent of equal
TL, of course. If you run up against an enemy fighter with a computer just
2 factors higher, you're dogfood. :-)
Thank God, CT. Something I can comment on! :-)
---Lee
---mas@vortex.lgs.lsu.edu