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07/06/09 05:48 AM

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Re: The Skies Aflame: Akira Destroyer

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A 50' PT boat was a threat to a WWII battleship, if the battleship was close enough to be hit by the PTs four torpedoes. Destroyers where meant to protect Battleships and Aircraft Carriers for attacks from such boats.

Donkey, do you understand the problem of trying to impose 1910s oceanic naval thinking on a 3060s vehicle that:

1) Is a spacecraft, not a watercraft

2) There have been radical changes to the role of "destroyers" in the past century (to the point they are often used as independent cruisers), let alone 1100 years later

3) Bob's Combine fleet doesn't necessarily have battleships that need protection

4) The Akira had very specific duties described in its second fluff paragraph that do not necessarily involve attacking battleships

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With the weight that the Naval PPC takes up you can have 120 Killer Whale missals. That would be one massive attack even a battleship would take knottiest of.

The Akira is meant to kill merchant ships and other destroyers, not be a one-shot missile rack that battleships would notice.