Posted by: Steve Walmsley
« on: May 22, 2007, 03:22:16 PM »Quote from: "Randy"
But don't you need to be able to detect the target before you can fire on it?
(I assumed that each ship needed to be able to detect a target before they could lock on a fire control system...)
The flaw with this design is that it can never operate alone - not even in an emergency. Without any sensors, if on its own, it could never fire back. And if in a fleet, it looses the ship with sensors, it is dead meat - no matter how many fire controls or reactors it has...
You've traded flexability and one vulnerability for lack of flexability and a different vulnerability. I'd have put in at least a minimal sensor so at least it could defend itself...
You can fire on any contact; you dont have to detect it yourself. Also, don't forget that all ships also have a minimum passive sensor strength of 1, whether they have any actual sensors or not. Try designing a ship with no sensors and you will see a 1 in the passive strength part of the design display, which for the Agincourt is therefore "Sensors 1/0/0/0". This won't detect anything at a great distance but it should be plenty for something within the Agincourt's limited targeting range, even if it was operating solo for some reason.
Steve