(spaceships) SM based Hull dST/HP

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by maximara

I think that is the by product of GURPS trying to be "realistic" it is a lot easier to do damage than to protect from it. As Issac Arthur likes to say "there is no such thing as an unarmed spaceship". F = ma rules supreme and you can really wreck someone's day with projectile weapons.

All true.

In one of the playtests I completely destroyed a SM+14 Gibralter Battlestation and all it took was a 16cm missile launched from a platform going 70 miles per second. I didn't launch just one missile of course but it only took one hit.

My ideas for dealing with this centered around improved anti-missile defenses possibly including layers of anti-missile drones. Fiddling with armor values is probably only nibbling around the edges.