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07/05/09 11:01 PM

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Re: The Skies Aflame: Akira Destroyer

It's a 450kt ship. It's not going to be able to challenge a Battleship, but compare it to the canon destroyers before you write it off for a lack of firepower. The HNPPC is the most powerful energy weapon available, and the Akira has fourteen of them, and can muster a potent six-gun broadside, in thirty-point hits that can force critical hits on most canon battleships at the longest engagement ranges.

Space isn't an ocean, and not every war is World War II. Capital missiles aren't torpedos. They're not a significant threat to large vessels, but are instead primarily of concern to fighters. Their firepower ratios are only comparable to energy weapons, and then only until fire-control limits are reached or longer missile magazines employed.

No lone destroyer represents a lethal threat to a Battleship, and that was the case in WWII as well.