Torpedo Bays
- Thread starter Dracous
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Good catch. Same as a missile bay (for now).
cliffbates65
Mongoose
Dracous said:
I missed something in the MGT rules, what happened to missle bays? Ok racks add on make sense but missle turrets and bays do as well. Yes this thread is about torpedo bays...... but unless you swapped the one for the other. I was just spending some time today looking at the way the new MGT HG breaks from CT High Guard.
Help please, where is the smart trait listed? 
Or should I consider this unchanged from the earlier edition?
Also a suggestion. While making the torpedo and missile bays scale perfectly makes for easy maths, why not deliberately introduce a little variance? You could have a rationale that at a certain size tracking and firing systems don't need to get any bigger and the Large bays can pack in a few more sardines. Let the 500 ton bay hold 35 torpedoes, and deliberately make that a nice niche point. It's hardly going to break the balance bank vs. existing variances in the powered weapons, but then makes some 'characteristic' flavorful TL designs. The patrol frigate just gets that extra little edge for instance. Which is what would be representative of a realistic design, weapons don't just follow a perfect scale. This is happening with powered weapons to a degree anyhoo.
Hardly a biggy I'll admit, but perhaps something to consider as the rules get more fine tuned.
Or should I consider this unchanged from the earlier edition?Also a suggestion. While making the torpedo and missile bays scale perfectly makes for easy maths, why not deliberately introduce a little variance? You could have a rationale that at a certain size tracking and firing systems don't need to get any bigger and the Large bays can pack in a few more sardines. Let the 500 ton bay hold 35 torpedoes, and deliberately make that a nice niche point. It's hardly going to break the balance bank vs. existing variances in the powered weapons, but then makes some 'characteristic' flavorful TL designs. The patrol frigate just gets that extra little edge for instance. Which is what would be representative of a realistic design, weapons don't just follow a perfect scale. This is happening with powered weapons to a degree anyhoo.
Hardly a biggy I'll admit, but perhaps something to consider as the rules get more fine tuned.
AndrewW
Emperor Mongoose
Chas said:Help please, where is the smart trait listed?
Also a suggestion. While making the torpedo and missile bays scale perfectly makes for easy maths, why not deliberately introduce a little variance? You could have a rationale that at a certain size tracking and firing systems don't need to get any bigger and the Large bays can pack in a few more sardines. Let the 500 ton bay hold 35 torpedoes, and deliberately make that a nice niche point. It's hardly going to break the balance bank vs. existing variances in the powered weapons, but then makes some 'characteristic' flavorful TL designs. The patrol frigate just gets that extra little edge for instance. Which is what would be representative of a realistic design, weapons don't just follow a perfect scale. This is happening with powered weapons to a degree anyhoo.
Hardly a biggy I'll admit, but perhaps something to consider as the rules get more fine tuned.
As it stands right now with missile and torpedo bays there's not really any incentive to say choose 5 100 ton bays instead of a 500 ton bay, that would just make it even worse. Would be preferable to have some trade offs doing it one way or the other.
Agreed about the trade offs one way or another. Actually I've just realized since that post that the 100 to 500 bay trade off isn't as cookie cutter as I first thought, with no incentives either way. The crew savings can certainly mount up...AndrewW said:As it stands right now with missile and torpedo bays there's not really any incentive to say choose 5 100 ton bays instead of a 500 ton bay, that would just make it even worse. Would be preferable to have some trade offs doing it one way or the other.Chas said:Help please, where is the smart trait listed?
Also a suggestion. While making the torpedo and missile bays scale perfectly makes for easy maths, why not deliberately introduce a little variance? You could have a rationale that at a certain size tracking and firing systems don't need to get any bigger and the Large bays can pack in a few more sardines. Let the 500 ton bay hold 35 torpedoes, and deliberately make that a nice niche point. It's hardly going to break the balance bank vs. existing variances in the powered weapons, but then makes some 'characteristic' flavorful TL designs. The patrol frigate just gets that extra little edge for instance. Which is what would be representative of a realistic design, weapons don't just follow a perfect scale. This is happening with powered weapons to a degree anyhoo.
Hardly a biggy I'll admit, but perhaps something to consider as the rules get more fine tuned.
