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Old February 4th, 2003, 11:00 AM
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Default Re: Ramming Damage

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Originally posted by MacLeod:
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Originally posted by couslee:

And being able to ram fighters is silly.
I don't really think it's THAT inconsiderable.
Imagine a bunch of canoes out in the middle of the ocean. The Nimitz comes along and lays a direct course through the canoes.

Odds are the people in the canoes aren't going to have a good day.

For an easier comparison, look at a Borg cube. It's huge compared to most any other starship, but I'd bet it wouldn't have trouble ramming most of those smaller ships.

The Nimitz can only ram canoes because it is much faster than they are, so much so that they essentially aren't moving. Try having the Nimitz ram a flock of speedboats. (Not to mention, ram fighter planes.) Better still, try having the Nimitz do what ships can do in SE4 - ram dozens of fighters at once, and have them have no chance to evade, or even to split up so only one gets hit.

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