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    phavoc reacted to rinku's post in the thread Imperial Battleships with Like Like.
    If it's a structural issue, there could be a case for duplicate M-Drives, one fore and one aft. If only one is thrusting at any one time...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Merchants weapons.
    Who needs nukes from orbit when you have physics (i.e. rods from the gods) to do all the F=M*A? I think players are nuke happy when...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Merchants weapons.
    Merchant ship owners will want the least costly deterrence available to them. Merchants have been notoriously cheap, err, fixated on...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Imperial Battleships.
    Very true. 30 centuries from now the labels could greatly vary as everyone, their brother and the Emperor's cousin wants to put their...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Imperial Battleships.
    I suppose the question becomes what sort of formation a fleet or a group of ship fights in. Staying close to one another to provide...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Imperial Battleships.
    Ships fought in a line for reasons. During the age of sail cannons were direct-fire and you had almost zero ability to shoot at anything...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Imperial Battleships.
    Insofar as USN designs went, I think it's safe to say the South Dakota and Iowa classes are true battleships, while the Alaska class was...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Imperial Battleships.
    Depends in the era. The US built 'light' South Dakota class battleships, and then built the follow-on Iowa class. South Dakota class was...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Imperial Battleships.
    You want to talk about being sold a fake bill of Dreadnought goods... I bought Massie's Dreadnought thinking it was going to be over...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Imperial Battleships.
    Ya beat me to it... For those interested in NOT doing their own research on this... HMS Dreadnaught, when launched, immediately...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Highport Stats/Specs.
    The books don't lend a lot of layered sophistication to orbital infrastructure. Grav technology fundamentally changes everything about...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Imperial Battleships.
    Other sci-fi series or settings follows what's been mentioned by a few above. First you have battleships as a class, then dreadnoughts...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Highport Stats/Specs.
    Unless the highport is totally unarmed and without any protection whatsoever, the PC's will fail if trying to do it with a ship. Now...
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    phavoc reacted to Sigtrygg's post in the thread Imperial Battleships with Like Like.
    The history of the terms ship of the line and rating system are well worth studying.
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    phavoc reacted to swordtart's post in the thread Single System games with Like Like.
    As has been noted in thread about lifters grav that can lift need not be effective for horizontal thrust (i.e. perpendicular to...
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