... It's all a matter of how operatic you want to be. If you're gonna have the fat lady on stage anyway, you may as well give her a bronze bra and a spear,...
... Yep. Though you could protect them by putting them back a ways. This would work nicely if (as in AV:T) combat range is much less than a light second, so...
... It could. It can also result in the use of covers that either flip into place, or that are transparent and can be replaced. For example, a layer of...
Yay! Congratulations James & Corrine! I'm sure he'll have plush dice before his 1st birthday, and a beach ball painted like an AVID before he's two. -Matt P....
... If we're talking active emitters, it might make sense to keep them with the weapons platform in an "operatic" environment. If your emitters are a full...
... First off, a wave in passing to Ian Mahaffey Sterrett - though I imagine it will be a year or two before he's actively reading this board. :) ... If (as...
... I was specifically leaving carriers out of the discussion - strictly talking about Ticonderoga, Burke, Los Angeles (and her successors). Whether anyone...
... I'd quibble with the "vastly outnumber" point (they're smaller, after all, and would outnumber carriers even if the carriers remained queens of the seas....
... Well, I'm talking number of hulls rather than tonnage. From a tonnage perspective, we've got 1.2 million tons of carriers vs. 1.0 million tons of...
... I don't see how that'd be feasible if you're using tight-beam comms systems and the drones are in front of their mother ship. It might work if your...
... I've long considered that carrier warfare might just have been a strange little oddity in history caused by the relative rates of advancement of different...
... No dispute at all on that score; I'm just noting that escorts would often (if not usually) outnumber capital ships while still having a strictly secondary...
... Interesting point! I'd demur somewhat in that battleship people between the wars grossly overestimated the effectiveness of (non-radar-guided) AA fire -...
... What's more, the carriers wouldn't have been much faster than the fleet if they were smaller and mainly for scouting, because they wouldn't have needed to...
... They might have been fast, because they were originally seen as performing a cruiser mission (hence the US designation CV). But they'd still be too small...
... Trivial on the mothership - I'm not advocating blinding the sensors, I'm advocating blinding the communications receiver on the weapons platform that ...
... Nukes or some other jamming missile. See the following post. I gave the caveat that you'd need to figure out a way to slip the nuke past the drone and...
... platform that ... Right. And that's what I think would be particularly hard to blind (or at least keep blinded), because the requirements for the actual ...
... been accustomed to since around the 19th century. ... it's ... This raises its own set of interesting (and perhaps delicate) questions, hence a new thread....
... Even for a smaller raid you'd better control local space, or the transports are going to be easy pickings for defending forces. ... Note that there'd be no...
one thing I have noticed here is the idea of single function ships, would this really be the best idea? ... Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of...
... I'd disagree. Having decent radar directed gunnery does not automatically guarantee that this gunnery will have decent *anti-aircraft* efficiency. The...
being an old gamer and board fighter these ideas have been around along time, you tube has a great series of clips showing different systems, and with maybe...
... This starts to look like age of reason Europe, where outright invasion and occupation was uncommon, You'd fight a war, and then go to the negotiation table...
... Massive air strikes by land-based aircraft against both ships and land targets are still a threat. ... The 22mm guns were not in the system, and post-war...
I'm trying to compile a list of science fiction simulation games about commerce, possibly for a comparative review article in Paper Wars. I mean games with...
... Josip - good to see you around here! ... had ... There'd be the option of deferring a Pacific counteroffensive until enough of the newer battleships were...
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