Posted by: boggo2300
« on: November 18, 2012, 05:56:56 PM »Meson cannons!
Why do I hear this in a Jar-Jar Binks voice in my head?
Matt
Meson cannons!
How about fighters that are in orbit providing ground support bonuses, it ground troops. This would be a great edition and give Laser/guass/rail fighters a useful role, without creating atmosphere issues. And make naval (space) operation even important when ground combat is on.
Perhaps, adding a Orbital Defence type structure, that gives you a defensive value to counter act strafing/close air support runs from smaller (Fac or Fighter, perhaps small frigates.) vessels. This enables conventional ground attack/artillery/support, adds more depth for defending and attacking with ground forces, and the orbital defence platforms/structures could also do damage to troop transports/assault dropships when the troops initially land.
One small problem is that the only weapons that work in Atmosphere are Meson, and missiles? ((I can't remember if railguns can but I know Gauss can't) so perhaps you'd have to loosen the rules in that respect to make it viable for Gauss/Railgun/Laser armed fighters, to do strafing runs, or Facs/small frigates doing the same thing.
Sorry if the grammar/spelling of this post is horrific, i'm pretty tired as I'm writing this >.>. I'll come back and edit it when I have some brain capacity back; until then i'll let you all decipher it.
It's been a while, but I've never seen a starting shipyard over 16,000 tons, and I'm pretty sure it takes way more than two years to go from there to 30k. Unless you have a ton of shipbuilding upgrades, I mean.
TN start and continuous capacity expansion.It's been a while, but I've never seen a starting shipyard over 16,000 tons, and I'm pretty sure it takes way more than two years to go from there to 30k. Unless you have a ton of shipbuilding upgrades, I mean.
Meson cannons!
Edit: Assault dropships take seconds to unload. Transports take hours or days. Granted, this may not matter if the ground combat only happens on 5-day intervals.
And how do you take out the PDCs without nukes?