Re: Honor Harrington
I reckon the game already has a very HH like feel to it anyway.
It would need inertial movement, but I understand there are mods which address this.
It needs missiles for long range combat. SE4 has these.
It needs energy weapons for short range combat that dish out a lot of damage very quickly. SE4 has these.
It needs area defence countermissiles. SE4 point defences fulfill this role. SE4 point defences are actually misnamed, and should be called area defences IMHO.
It needs point defences that only defend the ship they are mounted on, and only against seekers. This SE4 doesn't have. The closest feel you could get to it that I can think of would be to rename shield regenerators as point defence, this would give a certain amount of ability to absorb damage per turn, but be capable of being saturated by continual attack. Not perfect I accept, but part way there.
Lastly, HH shields are directional (having weakness 'down the throat and up the kilt', and that is not modeled by SE4. On the other hand, does it really matter? In large fleet engagements the tactics of the wall of battle etc have evolved to defend these weaknesses. Admittedly, Honor has had several battles where exploitation of these weaknesses has allowed her to emerge victorious, but these have generally been 1 on 1 engagements rather than fleet actions.
Fundamentally, HH battles involve lobbing lots of missiles at one another for relatively little attrition, followed by mass slaughter if the range is closed. SE4 feels like that too. (so far, for me anyway).
Pit Bull
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