[Spaceships] Idea for new system: VLS

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by Anthony

What it would actually do is permit firing missiles from any part of the ship, not just the part of the ship facing the target. VLS improves firepower of surface ships because most of the surface area of a ship is up, not sideways.

That's only an improvement if you're going by the (fairly ridiculous) Spaceships 1 rule that weapon facing matters for missiles. Spaceships 3 negated that.

VLS is perhaps not the best term for it, but the concept of individually-packed missiles instead of magazine-fed tubes seems clear enough.