Spaceships: Missile launchers and their individual mass

[The Rampant Gamer]

Originally Posted by Langy

That only applies to things that can't move.

I thought that sounded too good to be true...

The rules as written lead to some interesting arms races. Missiles come in big flights, hoping to get a few through, making it more likely that everyone has at least an entire tertiary battery devoted to rapid fire lasers for point defense, which makes missiles less likely to have any hope of hitting, which leads to larger beam weapons being mounted as they can't be defended against...