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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] [QUOTE]Well actually I'm with him on the weapons ranges front. Space is after all, very very very very...BIG. For one ship to realistically threaten another their reach has to be significant, otherwise a star system would be utterly indefensible.[/QUOTE]I see what you mean, but I have a threshold for realistic content in sci-fi. I prefer the kind of encounters a Star Destroyer would get into, encounters you could draw as a scene. When it all becomes automated, approximated, beeping dots on a screen, you can just let the computers do all the work and have no humans at all. The Honorverse battles are very tense, exciting and dramatic, and describe the exploding hulk of the enemy (or unfortunate ally) in poetic detail, but knowing that the winner who fired the deciding volley is many worlds away and can't possibly see it happen takes something away from it, for me. I realize that non-eyeball naval warfare occurred as early as WWII, but if I wanted to make an animation of my HMS Hammer in battle, it would be a Mutara Nebula deal, not Tron-meets-RISK. The only movie I know of that has broadside-firing sci-fi ships doing battle was "Wing Commander" (1999), and although that movie was very subpar, the one scene where David Suchet takes his capital ship on strafing speed past a Kilrathi cruiser, was the one interesting scene in the movie for me. THAT'S space opera. Couldn't find the scene on Youtube, but at 0:49 [URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpOWrQHgZzI]here[/URL] you see a miniscule part of it. The missiles are even shaped like Weber's official mk.7 missiles. Oh, and at 0:25, Suchet's very pretty capital ship. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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