Cruise Missile Proposal

[pchwang]

In today's society, torpedos can damage ships, however, a cruise missile or two can easily take out an average sized ship. My proposal is too make such a weapon that only certain capital ships of average size and possible heavy fighters can carry. These weapons will easily take out a capital ship with just a few direct hits.

However, the catch is, to make them ungodly expensive per warhead, say about 10-20 million each. This in itself will require substantial conservativity of the use of these weapons. Plus these missiles will drop if the ship in question dies, so most people may only carry a couple of them, but I feel this will even out the fighter/cap ship combat.

I know the Nova is expensive and stuff but thats more of a nuclear area of effect and still weak again against capital ship. However, the average cruise missile should be able to take out half the average shielding/hull of a battleship, i.e. 4 cruise missiles will take it out, all the shielding/armour of a cruiser (about 2 cruise missiles to take it out) without nano/sb recharge naturally.

Just an Idea if its dooable:yahoo:

I think that it would be a good idea, but it would totally cut down on the number of Capships. There needs to be a trade off to make sure people still want to fly capships, for instance, give them the ability to plow through asteroid fields without bouncing around and getting stuck...

And some torps can do quite a bit of damage to a cap ship...
You just rig your ship with Shield busters, then add 2 torps/novas

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[7:42:05 PM][6:51:36 PM] Igor (Smokey): btw terry
[6:51:48 PM] Terrance Cooper: Ye?
[6:52:00 PM] Igor (Smokey): nothin
[6:52:03 PM] Igor (Smokey): just sayin btw
[6:52:05 PM] Terrance Cooper: <_<

Johnny_Haas: you shot anti criuse speed rockets!!!
Johnny_Haas: but why????
Johnny_Haas: ??
Johnny_Haas: why you shoot criuse speed rockets?