[Spaceships] Combat Examples?

[mlangsdorf]

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.

Well, I hit the wrong button while writing the disclaimer, so the Bricriu vs the Pathfinders fight is up. Here's an important tip for designing GURPS Spaceship craft: put a tertiary battery with VRF lasers in the central hull for point defense. Don't put the point defense array in the forward hull, or your ship will die.