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In <DEzry...@midway.uchicago.edu>, ha...@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Bill) writes:
>You don't design your warships to carry huge numbers of troops-- troops
>are just so much extra mass (with a lot more required to give them life
>support), in a space battle.  By the same token, designing your transports
>to be warships means a huge increase in the cost of what are essentially
>throw-away ships, intended for a single mission.  The correct solution to
>this problem is to send lots of warships along with your transports, to
>protect them long enough for them to finish the job of offloading the
>troops.

You could just say that the transports are built with a bunch of escort
ships that go along with it that are just part of the actual Transport
ship convoy.  

In space, attacks come from very very far away.  As another person said,
the BEST strategy is to clear out the enemy before you move in but on the
other hand, too many troops were dying in the vacuum of space.

Brad

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>- Bill (ha...@midway.uchicago.edu)
>





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