InfinityBall, on 25 October 2017 - 07:42 PM, said:
two mistakes
the first when Warship would be kings you would develop a weapon that can low orbit. A multiple staged Solid Chemical Rocket with a warhead of 1kg is around the mass of shoulder-launched missile.
Send it in the other direction and when your warship goes "left" and your missile goes "right" you end with a solid 1kg ball traveling with ~18km/s this would be roughly the impact of a Gauss Slug in terms of MWO.
1 shoulder-launched missile becomes a Gauss Slug in orbit
Consider you have a platoon or a company launching those balls from everywhere. Just open the foxhole - launch and hide.
However the second miss concept of Warships rule.... how do you want to conquer a planet, for sure you can destroy every force so stupid to move in open terrain, but hey what if they hide in a city or in the industrial park or the mech factory below the mountain - your warship can't do anything about them - you need to send Grunts.
But when you send infantry with orbital fire you end in the same situation - your infantry gets cut down by high mobile forces in spaces where you can't hit them from orbit. So you need to send heavy armored units.... to be continued
Edited by Karl Streiger, 25 October 2017 - 10:31 PM.