Making EM Guns Viable in Space Combat (3e)

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by Anthony

The straightforward way to have 'fighters vs battleships' is by having two core drive technologies with different preferred scales. In the traditional case, it's because water drives get more efficient as you get bigger up to some enormous scale, whereas aircraft drivetrains don't scale up very well.

Aircraft are not dragging themselves through molasses, but also are not supported but said molasses. So to duplicate it, you would need an engine technology that allows smaller things to go an order of magnitude faster than bigger things.

A more plausible metaphor might be 'torpedo boats vs battleships'. Less Midway and more Tsushima.