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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim': [QB] Let's give the newbie the benefit of the doubt here, technical discussions are native to Flare, after all. I think the turrets in the side-rim of the SD can turn backwards and fire, maybe not 180 degrees backwards but like 100-120 degrees. And the domes on the bridge structure are the sensors, not shields. About the effectiveness of the Star Destroyers, we only have to look at the reputation they've earned in the movies to see their worth, for example Solo's bragging at Mos Eisley about having fled some of them before in his career, which we're to understand is a hard feat. About the effectiveness of the SD's AA-umbrellas being on par with WW-I standard, I've seen more than a few WW-II movies where american and japanese ships were on par with the Ottoman empire for AA, mostly for plot-flow reasons. So everything's relative. On the other hand, the Mon Calamari vessels are good examples of symmetrically built vessels that look about the same on the ventral and the dorsal side, so the designers weren't always "wrong". One reason it may not matter how limited the fire arcs of the SDs are would be the old argument of the immensity of space, almost always giving them time to swing around to lay down fire when the target is 100000x kilometers away. And about massing your firepower in only one direction, I refer to the french Richelieu class battleship, one of several designs to mass its main firepower one way. http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/205/RichelieuLineDrawing.gif [/QB][/QUOTE]
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