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Old 03-30-2018, 04:59 AM   #2
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Default Re: Spaceships: Where is Ammunition Cost?

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Originally Posted by VonKatzen View Post
An interesting point, though: if you're making big missiles there's no point in making them non-nuclear/non-antimatter. For 112cm missiles it's 1/40th or 1/20th cost increase per missile to make it a ten megaton weapon. This might factor into the calculation of a navy, but for an individual ship there's basically no downside to using nukes if your missiles are already big.
Except possible legality.
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