[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by geoschmo:

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Originally posted by oleg:
But why do you need warheads for such designs ??
You can achive the same with weapons on drones.
Mod short-range, high damage, 30-turn reload Versions of all those special weapons that can be used on drones only. Problem solved

No, not really. More like Problem avoided.

Your way works of course, but what some people wanted to be able to mod was a standard single use, damage-on-impact drone with the special damage types. The 30-turn reload weapon on a drone will get to come back and fight another combat round.

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More importantly, direct fire weapons can MISS. Ramming does not. (Yes, yes... queue rediscussion of whether this is 'realistic' or not in another thread. We're talking about pragmatic game play issues now.) Placing Combat Sensors in a drone to reduce the odds of missing (but still not ENSURE a hit...) is difficult/expensive given their small size. But seekers, and drones are just very big seekers, always hit if they reach the target. Being able to use the special damage types as warheads is the best application for drones.