Warship Roles

[flykiller]

Anything that will strip the hull of its externally mounted turret weapons should also be stripping the ship of its sensor arrays and the like.

why? neat stuff like gravity sensors and neutrino sensors could be in the middle of the hull and still work just fine.

 

[far-trader]

Originally posted by The Oz:
...Note that this would give another use for "fighters" as replacement sensor arrays for their mother ships. I would call them "sensor drones" instead of fighters...

So then they aren't really fighters (yes I see the " "), so it's not really another use for fighters or a way to explain them being used.

Extending the fleet's sensor sweep has been posited before of course, but primarily as a pre-battle option. You seem to be saying this will offset loss of sensors in the proposed new damage track but that won't work either.

If you suppose that sensors rely on surface mounts that can be easily scrubbed then you also have to expect communications to suffer as badly. And with no way to talk to those "fighters" your ship is still as blind as without them.