P55 of the compendium talks about Towing and is, to date the only "official" rendering of one ship carrying another that I am aware of (pre-compendium does not apply)

However, Dan's post on the costs of carrying another ship comes pretty close, I'd say.

This way you get your dropships and PT boats both.

You are correct, Dan.  Cheaper means "costs less"

I get confused sometimes.

sorry

From the Max Burn Page

By Cheaper, I mean smaller

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A PDS is as effective (and has as much effect on DR) as 3 shields, although it can't take as many hits. As seen in the graph at right, it also takes less space, on ships up to size 19! For ships of size 4 or less, a PDS takes less space than even one shield -- a definite win.
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a little confused, but...

jim

Nope, that's the thing.

Usually, there's not a ton of Qs on a ship, and the vulnerability of going from 3 shield to 0 shield in one hit is a biggie.

And point for point, they are cheaper than a 3 point shield.

Here's something Peter Drake put together to show that ratio:

http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/starmada/maxburn.html

a fine reference and the Man who brought us the Drake Notation(tm)

*Gasp* a fan???? or warmaster???? I'm crushed!

Did you try the specialty games website? (he asked knowing you probably did already, but I had to add some value to th conversation)

That's exactly what expendable weapons are used for.

You add just the shots you have ammo for. then when you've shot the weapon, you strike off a box as if it were hit.

how's that different from a weapon with only a few shots?

shouldn't the front point the same direction?

otherwise which is right?[/b]

okay, I'll fix it when I get a chance...

sorry

Yes, any weapon can attack fighters.

Yeah,

I've been known to mislable ships for that reason, to confuse the enemy, not because I don't have a clue what the difference between a battleship and a cruiser is... yeah that's it!

(All I know about sea combat, I've learned from Milton Bradley's Historical Combat Simulation "Battleship"... as in "you sunk my...")

jim

I think you'll both find that smaller, better designed ships will do you both better than a single ship.

I personally would rather put 5x100 point ships on the board than 1x600 point ship.  You simply have too many targets to shoot at...

I think you're seeing the problems with the bigger ships in the design system.  It's been created to push you toward the smaller hull sizes.

(IIRC)