5th September 2004, 9:50 AM
Quote:I was reading some of the old posts, and in one ABF mentions that the Star Wars ships can only fire from a few kilometers away.
Well---no, not applicable. The Death Star was several thousand (tens of thousands?) of kilometers away from Alderaan when it went nova on her ass. As for non-Super Laser weapons; well, I dunno.
Star Wars space combat is, like most space combat of that type, based on World War II naval combat. As in, the fighters are like WWII fighters -- they only can hit things close to them. Different weapons have different ranges, but you can't use fighters to attack something dozens of kilometers (the unit they use, I think) away... yes, the superlaser can shoot really far. But other than that, it depends on what kind of accuracy you want. As in, a Star Destroyer can roll over and turn the surface of a planet into goo from the edge of space... but don't expect it to be able to hit another ship that far away! Accuracy only works in a certain range and it seems to me that in SW it's relatively close. Which is really the only way to get cool dogfights like that to work, so I'm not exactly complaining. :)
Oh yeah, as for Trek fighters, they're dumb. :D