[Spaceships] Combat Examples?

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Originally Posted by mlangsdorf

I'm writing up the Pathfinders vs the Bricriu right now, and it's a bit of a mess. The e-mag guns are useless in the face of point defense; the Bricriu is invulnerable to the Pathfinder's p-beams at short range and can shred them with its own p-beams at close range; and the winning condition for the Pathfinders is to get behind the corvette and slam it with missiles where its' point defense systems don't cover. Moving the PDS battery to the central hull would fix that problem, but then there's no way for the Pathfinders to damage the Bricriu at all. I'll probably post it tomorrow, but I'm going to want to revisit it in a day or three.

Point defense is penalized based on relative velocity, right? I would expect that an e-mag...and nevermind, just looked it up. That's kind of lame.

It would seem hard to vaporize a solid chunk of metal zooming at you at high velocity...much harder than simply knocking out a missile or preventing the missile from properly detonating. I would point out that knocking aside Honorverse missiles would be VERY hard under these rules. Given that some Manticoran missiles arrive at .6c...that's a -18 to be precise!