Federation Commander

Posted: **Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:07 pm**

too bad they cant handle a Gorn Medium cruiser. HEHEHE

Posted: **Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:19 pm**

Phew - thought I'd gone mad for a minute there!

Posted: **Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:51 pm**

I cannot say I recognize the quote, but I've previously sworn to have never said something and been show that I said it 23 years ago.

Posted: **Tue Jan 08, 2013 12:01 am**

Thanks Darkwing,I was sure that I'd read it somewhere,it's good to know that senility hasn't set in quite yet.

Posted: **Tue Jan 08, 2013 12:22 am**

Not to say there wasn't something along that line that you just recall differently.

Posted: **Wed Jan 09, 2013 3:27 am**

Page 44 of my Tactics manual (1987 edition), under "The Ships of the Federation Star Fleet," the paragraph describing the Heavy Cruiser says (not quoting here) the ship is designed to absorb the enemy's damage then fire a devastating blow with its photons and phasers. It goes on to say that the photon can miss at even modest ranges, but the ship was built to handle anything a D7 can give and still return fire.

But this does NOT say that photons alone would be the only weapon to return devastating fire after the Fed ship was whalloped first.

Federation Commander

Question on Federation weapons doctrine