Slightly Norse John
Mongoose
The problem is that it's so obvious a weakness, even the EA would have noticed.
To be fair, we are metagaming, pointing out how flawed- in game rules terms- the EA fleet list seems to be.
Stuff it. I'm at least part LARPer, and I'll use the terminology I'm familiar with. In character, there are no such things as PL's and fleet allocation points. There are just ships, and if you happen to be able to afford bigger and better ones than your enemy, then that can only be a good thing. The reality the characters live in isn't balanced and fair; the big stick works. So, really, it makes perfect sense for them to go in the direction of big and clunky.
It makes less sense when we think in terms of playing the wargame. The bit I don't like about this range of ships is that they're all rather samey; they're smaller or larger versions of each other, with more or les AD of the same weapon systems.
To be fair, we are metagaming, pointing out how flawed- in game rules terms- the EA fleet list seems to be.
Stuff it. I'm at least part LARPer, and I'll use the terminology I'm familiar with. In character, there are no such things as PL's and fleet allocation points. There are just ships, and if you happen to be able to afford bigger and better ones than your enemy, then that can only be a good thing. The reality the characters live in isn't balanced and fair; the big stick works. So, really, it makes perfect sense for them to go in the direction of big and clunky.
It makes less sense when we think in terms of playing the wargame. The bit I don't like about this range of ships is that they're all rather samey; they're smaller or larger versions of each other, with more or les AD of the same weapon systems.