[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Aloofim:
The good thing about cloaking its that it have the potential to make small ships valuables to the very end. When you make large ships capable of cloaking you throw that away.
I just don't like the "bigger it's better" aproach.

The thing about it is that it's almost universally true that a bigger ship will be better at the same tech level, simply because you can fit more onboard.

Also, big hulls should be desproportionaly expensier than small hulls.
Check out what happened to Battleships after WW2, when they became nothing more than ultra expensive missile launching platforms.
And of course history doesn't repeat itself, and what happened after WW2 doesn't need to happen again.
But its a good balancing twist.

The Nimitz is considerably larger than any of the Battleships floated in WWII. It displaces 97,000 tons, while the Missouri displaces 45,000 tons. Modern ships are nearly twice as large as WWII ships.