Is "BattleCruiser" a relative size? -- discussion

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
I to have to agree with SJ. The cost should go up dramatically for larger ship hulls.

I also feel that Carriers are under used, under valued, and under powered. In a real NAVY a carrier is the key to the fleet, not the Dreadnought.

SEIV currently does not use Carries in the way that they should be used. You encounter fleets of carriers and a baseships and it should be one or two carriers to a fleet of Battle Cruisers.

But it is all because of completly different medium ships and aircraft are moving through. In space there is no difference whatsoever between large and bulky ship and small crats. Except Newton's laws of cource. Translating Navy carriers into interstellar battles is an utterly ludicurious idea, IMHO. The closest we can get from the naval history is small and agile torpedo boats and their carriers. It was a fashionable idea at the end of XIX centuary.