Battleship discussion topic

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Dont compare boats with starships. That is like comparing a birds with fishes. They have nothing to do with each other.
Also, we cannot take an example from real life because there are no war-oriented starships in real life. What we can do is take as example starships rom other Sci-Fi shows...

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I think that its a very valid comparison. Much more valid than any Hollywood junk

Think about it its a simple question of logistic. How many fighters can you build instead of that one big battleship? How many fighters can you crew instead of one big battleship?
You do not, if you can avoid it, use that kind of overkill. If five small fighters manned by five pilots can do the job well, then you certainly dont waste your resources by building a battleship!

Remember that in space the ship's weight is not important. But the mass. And there is no friction, so a bigger ship with bigger more powerful engines can perfectly go faster than a fighter because of constant acceleration. And because the higher power output of their engines, as they accelerate constantly without friction... So the final speed of a BS will be higher than the final speed of a fighter. But, on the other side, the fighter, which has a much smaller mass, can accelerate much quicker than a BS...
So:
--Fighter has better acceleration, and takes less time to reach final speed.
--BS can go faster, but it takes more time to reach final speed, because of its mass.

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Hmm, Im a bit rusty on my physics knowledge, but still

A battleship will have a much bigger mass that a fighter, right? And so it will need a proportionally larger engine in order to accelerate as fast as a fighter right?
But wont the bigger mass also mean that it will reach infinity point faster? I mean, the point where the energy needed to accelerate the mass will be nearly infinite?

Hence the slower speed (since FreeLancer does a real lousy job of implementing space-physics)

Then what if the enemy doesn't have anything else than rowboats, and you have to deal with them with your nice big not-able-to-deal-with-small-boats battleship? ;)

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Simple. You do not, repeat: not, engage rowboats with battleships. You engage them either with your own rowboats, or with your Corvettes and Frigates

Why do you think that a modern carrier requires such a huge support group? Because therere lots of thing that it cannot defend itself against. Low flying missiles and fast moving speedboats amongst them

Ok, to be honest a typical US carrier is actually bristling with point defence weapons. But if it is forced to use them, then something has gone seriously wrong

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