Spaceships: Missile launchers and their individual mass

[The Rampant Gamer]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

That might be an interesting arms race, but it isn't the likely one.

Rather than launch missiles in large volleys that get ridiculously mistreated by the RoF rules, you want your ship to launch big flights of missiles in volleys of one missile each. If you don't have gunnery AIs and hew strictly to RAW this results in somewhat bizarre crew sizes, but it's not unmanageable. Fired in single-round volleys, with proximity settings, missiles overwhelm point defense fairly easily.

I'm AFB, but wouldn't the defending ships just do their point defense in smaller bursts as well, spreading fire if necessary due to too many individual volleys?

And I do allow for groupings of weapons into a multi-barrelled turret. I played too much Traveller as a boy not to expect triple turrets...