Number of Missiles on Escort Ships

[Arty Morty]

Thanks all!

[PDF]

Arrg !! Growltigga arrived some scant seconds before Taz, and I'm a minute behind ...

I've to put afterburners on next time I try an answer ...

[geoschmo]

Also, since your Capital Ship Missle component is larger than your other low-tech weapons, it could be assumed that some of this extra space is missle storage.

As far as the fact that you can fire missles indefinetly combat round ofter combat round, the next patch will deal with this somewhat as wepons will no longer fire once a ship has depleted all it's supply.

You could also take a Trek perspective on this and assume some sort of replicator technology that produces missles, or any other ammo for that matter. This actually makes some amount of sense considering all weapons, engines, and other devices in SE4 use the same mysterious "supply" substance. Call it liquid hydrogen, or anti matter, or whatever you want. It gets converted into energy for the engines, or molecularly combined into ammo for the weapons, or changed into food for the crew.

Geoschmo

[Growltigga]

Originally posted by PDF:
I've to put afterburners on next time I try an answer ...

No chance mon ami, as we ros-boeuf say, big wobbly dangly ones to you

[Grandpa Kim]

Arty Morty, with an escort it is deucedly difficult to run out of supplies and therefore out of ammo for your lone missile launcher. With larger ships, likely carrying the same or even less supplies, but far more guns, running out of ammo can be a serious consideration ... and a damn fine way to lose an entire fleet!