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Old 04-03-2016, 06:42 AM   #2
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Default Re: [Spaceships] Fighter Pilot Campiagn

One thing I like to do with my spacecraft is combine engine modules to handle a single oversized engine. A space fighter would be able to pull 5-10G with a Hot Reactionless engine composed of 5 engine modules, and a capital ship only 0.5G to 1G with a single standard or even rotary reactionless engine module. This is realistic, too; look at how much of a modern fighter is taken up by the engines compared to the engines of an aircraft carrier.

So, fighters offer greater speed and mobility, but do they have the armaments to hurt the SM +10 cruisers or SM +12 battleships? "The Empire doesn't consider a small one-manned fighter to be any threat" (to anything other than another fighter, a shuttle, or a dropship) could be a plausible mindset among some of the blocs, and unless your fighters are all carrying nukes, they might be right.

Something to think about.



Also, SM +8 carrier? I couldn't get my small escort carrier below SM +9, at least not without dropping the fighters to SM +4 (it was designed to carry about 30 SM +5 (two 15-man squadrons) or 100 SM +4 fighters) so I'd love to see your stats.
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