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what can it take out in one shot with its meson cannon??
A Ravana??? A Demon??

A Lucifer maybe??

or all of the above?

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A Ravana a Demon, any Destroyer class vessel will go down with a single shot. The recharge time for a shot such power is fairly long however.

In a couple of missions the beam is operating at mostly full power and it takes out a destroyer and several other large vessels. The more the beam is used, the more risk is placed on the ship for a catastrophic overload. Its definately not like other beams where they can just keep firing them. Sure you can fire a bunch of times at full power, but you're going to have some serious problems the more you keep doing it.

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best Just to act in a more supportive role, with 50% power shots adding significantly to the carnage or using Golgothas in pairs to take down ships.

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The ship is designed to take out juggernaught class vessels, but not combat them. Thats the idea.

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Originally posted by Zeronet
or using Golgothas in pairs to take down ships.

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Originally posted by George
What do you mean using them in pairs? IS THERE MORE THAN ONE!!!???!!

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It can cause catastrophic effects if overcharged, uh????

I think that I'm already guessing one of the missions

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quote:

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What do you mean using them in pairs? IS THERE MORE THAN ONE!!!???!!

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Now tell me where I said that . I did say it was designed by the engineers with more than one in mind.

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It can cause catastrophic effects if overcharged, uh????

I think that I'm already guessing one of the missions

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Probably could be. Not sure if thats going to be in there or not. Depends on how things go.

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You want the straight deal? Here it is.

The Meson Cannon can open up a doublewide buttload of kung-fu grip, ass-whuppin' action on the whatever happens to be downrange.

Good enough for you guys?

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If the Hull ratings I found a freespace.vw are correct.

SD-Demon Hull 10000
SD-Ravana Hull 12000

Dont quote me on that, its near enough..

SJ-Sathanes Hull 100000

So its 10x the hull.

So am I right the Golgotha overkills Destroyers like 2k damges, and five full power shots to take down a SJ on its own?

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Well, it all depends how you define a buttload of damage.... specifically, kung-fu grip, ass-whuppin' type.

(I'm not telling. My previous post was a joke, ok?)

It's a lot of damage.... and the yield is in fact variable.

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Ahh nice variable ehh. Do you have diff sets of tbls then? And load whichever one you chose for a given mission. Or can you chage power IN mission. Now then id be really impressed.

Also does it do this
Key:
Golgotha beam= -
SD-Demon= o

bzzzzzzz
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bzzzzzzz
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bzz boom

-----------------o------ Hull -25%
bzzzzzzz
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Magic.

And I haven't actually tested it in game, I just looked at the table entry.

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I reduced it a bit....but it'll still open a can of whoopass on anything that gets infront of it

Capiche?

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Aww, so it's only a standard buttload of damage?

Metric or Imperial buttload?

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I live in a quasi-metric country (Canadians always taking the middle road), so both

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That would be a neat trick indeed, eh?

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Yes yes indeed

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I reduced it a bit....but it'll still open a can of whoopass on anything that gets infront of it

Capiche?

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