SomosFuga wrote:Coalition wrote: One potential might be the People's Republic from the Honorverse, who need a short, victorious war.
Are those books good? i haven´t read them yet but i've heard very varied coment about honorverse.
Here is the website with all the CDs that Baen gives away with some of their hardback books:
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/
Just go to the CD Listing, click on the arrow, click on the 01-Honorverse CD, and have fun reading.
Basically Weber wanted to do an "Age of Sail"
in space.
So he set it up where the main defenses are broadside, and most ships engage from that direction; missile fire initially blinds sensors when fired (like the gunsmoke blinding eyes in ship battles). If an enemy is too powerful, the main STL drive is a pair of flat planes above and below the ship, several dozen kilometers wide and long; effectively impervious to weapons fire. If a fleet sees it is weaker, it can turn up on its side, and let the enemy waste their fire on the flat planes, while the fleet runs away.