It's still a rules problem.  So the nuke damper means nuclear missiles
are useless and you're reduced to using lasers?  So what?  Sure, one
laser won't hurt a battleship.  Two won't be any better, nor will three,
four or five.

But 300?  I don't care what armour your ship has, that's gonna hurt.
Except that the rules don't allow it.

(Checking the rules, the RTT flight/barrage rules do allow a flight of
light fighters to hurt a Tigress - just - but they'd have to be flown by
truly exceptional pilots who were also very lucky.)

Still, the 3I has large amounts of fighters tooling around because, IRL,
a tiny, little, insignificant fighter, weighing several orders of
magnitude less than a battleship, *can* pose a very real threat to,
well, pretty much anything if deployed in large enough numbers.

As the Italians discovered at Taranto, the Americans at Pearl and the
British off Malaya.

But not according to Traveller rules.

David Shaw

On 08/10/14 22:42, Ian Whitchurch wrote:
> David,
>
> The thing is though, the weapon system on a Kate can really hurt a
> battleship if it hits it. Many point defense weapons make this unlikely,
> but you can counter this with many small craft, leading to an ecosystem of
> torpedo boat kills battleship kills cruiser kills torpedo boat destroyer
> kills torpedo boat.
>
> But the TL12 nuke damper pulled the teeth of the only weapon in Trav that
> could hurt a proper, armored, military ship.