Honor Harrington Mod Discussion

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Phoenix-Dfrom Microdrone thread)
HH mod uses it. See that thread for the major issues.

The problems are you can't target the drones manually in tactical (they attack always using their strategy), a lot of drones will actually get in each others way, you can't set a fire rate of below 1 per turn, and they will always outrange any other weapon.

Phoenix-D

Phoenix,

Why Direct Fire warheads instead of contact ones? Is this something that fits with the HH universe, or a workaround for some problem you came across trying to implement the missle drones.

What do you mean by "the Drones get in each others way"? I can see a hundred drones with direct fire weapons milling about could be a problem, since they dont' stack like fighters. Is that what you mean? I wonder if maybe my first question has the answer for the second. If you change the warheads back to ramming warheads don't you eliminate the problem of them getting in each others way?

Your other three problems stated in your post aren't really problems for the mod I am considering.

The store 50,000 drones and launch them at the first fleet that attacks would be a problem. However, it would actually be a problem for attacker and defender as well, since once launched the drones cannot be recovered a simple single ship probing defenses would clear out any stockpile of drone missles and these two things would cancel each other out and make the defenders less likely to attempt this tactic, don't you think?

Geoschmo

[ August 09, 2002, 20:15: Message edited by: geoschmo ]