"Towable Pods...Full Thrust" Topic

Has anyone tried building or using Towable Pods for Missile ordinance? I built some, but wanted to know what other players thought about this.

Example: Basically build a 24 mass pod, 3 hull 1 FC and either 10 HM or 5 Salvo. Then put towing capacity on a ship.

Yup, done it after i started reading the Honor Harrington series. Tho mine only had one hull point and were smaller mass but same concept.

Really? That's in HH?

Sorry, somebody brought that to a game, and I'd smile and pick up my ships. Gritting my teeth, mind you.

Doug

Yeah it gives battlecruisers a super dreadnoughts missiles. Iirc one broadside was 400something missiles strong.

Really? That's in HH?

Yup, about 5-6 books in is when the "pod ships" and LACs start showing up.

And that really makes things UGLY.

Very Starfire SBMHAWK in style if you ask me.

I'd price it as a STRONG hull to make it expensive enough.

I did something similar, now that you mention it, with Starfire whilst idly tinkering with ship design ideas. Later on I found it was not such an original idea, as it was in one of the Starfire books (Insurrection, I think). Not so much a towed missile pod, as it was a towed tail gunner, since in Starfire ships have a 60 degree blind spot to the rear due to drive field effects. The towed ship had just enough engine power to make it through a warp point, while the larger towing ship was somewhat over-engined to compensate when they were paired.

Doug

Nope, still wouldn't play.

If the 'engine wash' didn't effect the gunner's effectiveness, or survivability, still walking.

Tanstaafl.

Doug