Point-Defence Laser Batteries in HG - Am I Holding This Right?

[rinku]

Stepping slightly back, sand is probably too close to the ship to do much more than turn the incoming intact missile into an incoming mass of exploding missile...

High Guard does have anti-missile missiles that do the whole cloud of fragments thing a bit further away from the ship.

 

[MattL]

Stepping slightly back, sand is probably too close to the ship to do much more than turn the incoming intact missile into an incoming mass of exploding missile...

Off topic, but a bit of math tells us that a missile accelerating at 10g for an hour (that's Thrust 10 for 10 rounds) reaches a velocity of 353km/second. If a chunk weighing just 10kg hits, it does so with 623 Gigajoules of energy - 10x the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

If we bring in real physics, these missiles don't even hardly need warheads....

 

[rinku]

Some of that thrust may be going towards deceleration and definitely on maneuvering, but yes.

 

[Condottiere]

Knock out guidance, and have the target do minimal evasion.