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FTL systems can be brought to readiness in under a minute, sometimes a lot less.I'm going with anti-gemoetry weapons for the main battery point defenses and close ins vary from ship to ship: Lasers, masers, mini-missiles, gravity-flank, and projectiles all appear in places.

Point defense weapons are cheap and can be used whenever unnecessary without blowing the budget.

FTL in this universe can only be used to relocate, and renders the ship undetectable.

Thanks for you help, all you armchair generals out there! The battlecruisers carry dramatically more powerful weapons that are, inherently, limited to close ranges.Ĭapital ships are usually accompanied by smaller, less resilient escorts escorts which perform more specialized roles. More agile battlecruiser-cavalry style capital ships attempt to engage other capitals at point blank range to create and exploit breakthroughs, strike high value targets, and cause confusion. Guided missiles and combat drones are frequently used to fight from ranges into several billion kilometers, but they're often rendered ineffective by the close range point defense weapons of capital ships.

This puts a soft limit on effective range based on the target maneuverability.Ī typical range for battleship combat is 300,000 km, but battles that relied on volume of fire, or luck, have been fought at ranges an order of magnitude higher. The battleships' weapons and sensor packages can be considered extremely precise, and the main cause of missed shots is that the propagation of weapon bolts (shall we just call them lasers for now?) are limited to the relativistic constant, c, which permits target ships to take evasive maneuvers. The battleships' primary role is to blaze away at other big ships from the longest possible range they can reliably hit their target. What formations may be used in stellar combat where capital ships face attack from any direction with little to no forewarning, can take significant amounts of damage before going down, and can rapidly bring fire to bear on any vector?įaster than light travel is readily available to all ships, but ships can neither fire from nor reliably detect targets at FTL speeds. Modern armour is highly mobile and faces hard hitting weapons, so irregularly disperses its units to minimize the effect of hostile fire and facilitate rapid maneuvering. Sailships used lines astern effectively focus the side mounted weapons of all the ships in combat. Historical, combat formations have been dictated by the capabilities of the combatants: classical century infantry had limited mobility and range, so dense lines and blocks of troops were commonplace. The science fiction militaries of my latest project field large numbers of space faring battleship style capital ships.