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Old September 12th, 2001, 06:48 PM

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Default Re: Poll: Ship design strategy

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Originally posted by CyC:
They do not have a tractor beam with a large enough range to be via able

why would you need to drag something only 4 squares away closer ?

i want something that can bring things in from 20 squares away

ok going a bit over board there but you get the point



What if you are using Ripper Beams with a range of 3 like my close combat class of DNs? In fact if you have two opposing ships each beefed up with over 100% defensive bonus (ECM, stealth/scattering armour, racial points...), that two or three squares in range makes a hugh difference in weapon accuracy.

By the way, a normal mount tractor beam operates exactly like a massive mount one, so you can forget about anything over a normal mount. That 20kt of space for the tractor combined with a 40kt heavy mount repulser beam (on my DN) is quite well spent in my opinion.


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