[spaceships] Proximity Warhead damage

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

It also requires spacships to have huge problems with stealth such that small sensors can track them over long distances. Yet it also requires that anti-missile fire is largely impractical.

The first might be realistic to whatever extent having adventutes in space has anything to do with realism. The second is not realistic at all.

That's mostly a Close Combat Ranges setup. Detection range need not be that short, but effective engagement range has to be such that there is no sniping in space. In such a setup, missiles can be the long-range weapon of choice (though not in all variants).