[Spaceships] Combat Examples?

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Huh? Assume 2 ships detect each other while out of beam range. One with missiles, the other with all beams. The missile ship can launch immediately but if the other ship closes the range the beams will still hit first under many range situations.

As an example, a TL10 SM+9 ship could carry a 1 GJ UV laser as a main battery. That has a range of 3000/10,000 miles.

If the missile boat launches from just outside that range his best possible standard missiles have 20 miles per second of Delta-v. The missiles will take 500 seconds to hit.

But this is where it all goes wrong. There's no reason for the missile boat to launch from just outside that range. The missile boat can launch at 20,000 miles. Or 200,000 miles.