Re: [LoGH] Babylon 5 vs Galactic Empire
Michael Mikulis (mmikulis@hotmail.com)
Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:02:27
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>So that raises a serious question- why haven't the LGH powers worked up
>a better-protected class of ships? Or at the very least something with
>more physical armor if power/weight ratios for overall shielding are
>impractical? To what extent is doctrine, economics, internal politics
>or the need for hulls for imperial patrolling (in the case of the
>Empire) driving ship design as opposed to just engineering issues?
Well, Yang Wenli does use the armored battleships as shields for the smaller
ships at Amlitzer. What's interesting is that there is an episode where a
force of 200 battleships are able to achieve a breakthrough. This implies
that most of the ships in a fleet aren't nearly as strong as a battleship.
Most likely, battleships are very costly and are used primarily for
concentration (200 battleships take up just as much room as 200 cruisers
since you have alot of space between the ships).
>To use a real world example, the US could have built an air force
>composed of SR-71 fighters. One high-speed fighter could barrel through
>an area controlled by an enemy, blaze away at anything with wings and be
>very very hard to hit with SAMs or air-to-air missiles.
You also ultimately need air units to actually affect the outcome of the
ground combat. and while the SR-71s might be able to knock enemy air units
out of the theatre, I doubt they could bust tanks like the A-10s and are
much more costly to build than A-10s.
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