Impact Missiles

[email removed] wrote
> Subject: TNE: Anti-matter missile
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> Firstly, I don't see why a missile impact is impossible ... s**t happens.
 Frankly, I don't either.  I can see where, given the ranges and velocities
of space combat, it would be very hard, but no matter how improbably it is, a
ship can be constructed to deliver enough missles quickly enough to make at
least one hit probable -- and an impact by even one delayed-detonation H-bomb
riding in a high velocity penetrator ought to really ruin your day.

OTOH, can you image how the "tradition" based gamers would react to missles
becoming genuinely effective?  In traditional high guard, a missile armed
figher cannot seriously threaten a large warship.  With impact nukes honestly
represented, they could.  Perhaps that is what the decision to ban them was
based on.


Les Howie
Prograph International