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Old 02-08-2019, 10:29 PM   #28
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Default Re: [Spaceships] How does large-scale space warfare play out (without superscience)?

By the way, if a spaceship using a single fusion drive for thrust drops bombs at 10 mps, and then de-accelerates into GSO Earth orbit, it has to release the bombs about 92 hours out. As the bombs are ballistic objects, if there's any half-decent defence system around or on the planet, those bombs aren't landing (and certainly not the ones landing on anything important).

Note that the basic combat system gives bombs a range of 'S' vs surface targets, making this an illegal tactic if using the basic combat system.
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