Starships - Are We Bringing Enough Guns?

[Condottiere]

Engineering for starwarships tends to be primarily the jump drive, and affiliated fuel tanks, so for the Imperium Navy's standard four parsec range, that's half the volume.

Balance would be around ten percent for the primary armament.

 

[Rupert]

An important thing to remember with energy weapons - you should count the power supply 'slice' required to power them into their percentage. The same applies to screens that require power.

 

[Condottiere]

You can cheat with batteries, if you calculate that the engagements won't last long.

Sort of the equivalent of magazines.

 

[Rupert]

You can cheat with batteries, if you calculate that the engagements won't last long.

Sort of the equivalent of magazines.

You still need to count those in the 'weapon' slice, though.

Also, if I'm correct it's only workable at TL14 (batteries from Striker give about 1.4 turns of power at TL14 for the same displacement as a powerplant of the same output) and very slightly at TL15 (1.17 turns). It's also very expensive.