[Spaceships] Idea for new system: VLS

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Try MRLS, VLS is just an MRLS where the missiles can turn sideways after launch. I don't think I've ever used the Spaceships combat system so I haven't paid attention to it, but for 'realistic' space combat it's generally appropriate (particularly if turn length exceeds 20 seconds) to assume that you can dump your entire missile bay in a single tactical turn.

MRLS, on the other hand, is a worse term for it, because that's the name of a specific weapon system rather than a general type. And it's not even evocative of the right type, because the launch cells almost certainly would be oriented like in a VLS system, firing out of cells inset in the ship's hull. The only real problem with calling it that is that 'vertical' is badly defined in space.

And whatever may be realistic, Spaceships standard assumptions are drastically to the contrary. You need 5 20 second rounds to empty the smallest missile magazines, and the largest launchers sustain 100 minutes of continuous firing.