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Originally Posted by RogerBW
See the "Smaller Systems" rules in Spaceships 7 and 8.
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Smaller. Seriously, a ship like the Enterprise
could mount hundreds Anti-Air/Point Defense batteries. The reimagined Battlestar Galactica seems to have done so.
To me, there's really two cures for this issue. The first is to have much smaller weapon battery mount available, but the second is to have Mixed Batteries, so that a SM+15 ship doesn't have to mount 300,000 point-defense weapons or leave most of the battery mostly empty as Cargo Hold. By using the idea of a mixed battery you could slice up a single Weapon Battery into numerous sizes of weapon mounts, allowing a mix of the smallest Point Defense weapons, some smallish Missiles, some larger Missiles and Anti-Air, and maybe even a couple Medium or Secondary weapons. Since the weapon sizes all scale on a 3/10/100 progression it's not that hard to slice up a weapon battery like that to maximize usefulness.