On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Ian Whitchurch <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

> In Trav, weapons start at turret size, then go to bay size, and then go to
> spinal mount size.
>
> You can armor against this damage.

> One ship with 50 tons of armor is better armored than 50 ships with 1 ton of
> armor each.

Maybe, depending on distribution.  More likely to survive similar
weapon hits, assuming those hits are surviveable at all.

(and we're back to PT boats vs. battleships)

> As well, its a heck of a lot easier to reload a 50 dton missile bay than it
> is to recover and then reload a 50dton fighter, so if you're in the TL10-11
> 'missile era', then you still want Missile Boats, not fighters, because a
> Missile Boat can keep the salvos coming while a fighter is finding the
> carrier to reload.

That's always been kind of odd to me.

I see a "missile bay" as a bunch of launch tubes.  Reloading requires
going outside to drop fresh missiles into the launch tubes.

Otherwise, you'd have to truck the munitions through the ship, and be
able to open the back of the bay to reload, and that always struck me
as silly.  And hugely unsafe.

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