No Steamrunner Why?

posted on January 1st, 2010, 11:27 pm

The reason you don't have 15 launchers is that torpedoes are a powerful but limited resource.  You usually stick to phasers until you have someone clearly in your sights and then you slam them with photons or quantums.  Just 10 volleys and you've fired 150 torpedoes!  That just seems ludicrous to me.

Ludicrous? Read the second line of my signature. That should tell you everything you need to know about why I like the 15 launcher concept.

posted on January 1st, 2010, 11:34 pm

Maybe we should call it the IKS Akira.

posted on January 1st, 2010, 11:35 pm

I prefer ISS Akira... The 'Warship Voyager' would probably be a scout in comparison to a 15-launcher Akira.

posted on January 1st, 2010, 11:41 pm

Hehe, didn't the Warship Voyager have something like 30 launchers?  And didn't they only have 30 torpedoes in reality?   So each launcher could fire 1 torpedo.

posted on January 1st, 2010, 11:43 pm

Gonna be a short battle, providing those torps actually hit something...

posted on January 2nd, 2010, 12:12 am

The borg cube blew up because all the torpedoes hit at once so it didn't have time to adapt.

posted on January 2nd, 2010, 2:00 am

Ludicrous? Read the second line of my signature. That should tell you everything you need to know about why I like the 15 launcher concept.

I'd prefer 15 independently powered emitters.  More Shootier!  And you can just keep shooting and shooting, and shooting, and shooting.  Would make Gork 'n Mork proud.