Is "BattleCruiser" a relative size? -- discussion

[Erax]

Originally posted by mac5732:
My opinion only, In hotseat or sp against the AI, other weapons besides PD's can be used against ftrs both in unmodded and modded. My opinion is to take this ability away and only let PD's be used against ftrs. In strategic combat I'm don't think these other weapons fire on ftrs, but if they still do, then ftrs become basically useless in later parts of a game, They can't get in close enough to fire.

If you give fighters a good defensive bonus, a ship's main guns may still fire at them but they won't hit all that often. I like that model because it simulates the low traverse speeds on the main guns, it makes fighters hard to hit but not impossible.

PDCs have in-built offensive bonuses to simulate the fact that they can track fighters better than the main guns, that's why they hit so often.