UFP Energy Weapon Rough Draft

Phaser SetMaxDamage can and should vary between Federation ship classes.  Even between two ship classes that shared a type or class or model of phaser emplacement, one can readily imagine that reactor differences and other factors like year of manufacture would change the final yield of the phaser emitter.   The addition or subtraction of simple components (such as an anodyne relay) can have significant effect on weapon output.

Of course, we also bump into the matter of stripped phaser arrays. 

Suffice it to say, I figure they may be a tad more powerful the longer the strip is, but not much . . .  certainly not enough for designers to have worked hard to maintain higher length.  I figure the strips help for weapon resilience due to use or attack, not to mention being awesome for multi-punch against a bunch of targets (thus helping prevent swarm overwhelming), but that's the majority of the rationale for their use.

These are just draft numbers, UFP only, and, as with the hull hitpoints, are based on playability as much as than strict consistency with the canon, though I don't feel they'd be all that far off.   Photon torpedoes, after all, are the great equalizer.   That said, every number is a choice, and each choice came from consideration of evidence, much of which is factoring in to future posts on the main blog.  

No doubt, one likely frequent question would be the issue of the Sovereign having phaser firepower lower than the Galaxy.  The simple fact is, we have no reason to believe otherwise, and her skinny little phaser strips are roughly equal in width to Voyager's, a ship that is a contemporary (by stardates on the dedication plaque, it's Voyager's 480XX at Utopia Planitia versus the Enterprise-E's 498XX from San Francisco, which is less than two years separation ... and while their wildly different lines suggest the two design teams never even saw each other at parties, I can't imagine their big-ticket systems are all unique, too).   Since she's also closer in size to Voyager, the suggestion that the Sovereign is some ubership even without her quantum torpedo launcher just doesn't work for me.  

Similarly, people squee about the Akira, and her phaser arrays look to be of similar girth to the Galaxy and Nebula.  However, these are not the newest ships, and I don't think their reactors are spitting out Galaxy level power.

That said, if you have questions, pose them.  This list is neither extensive nor anything but some hastily published quick notes, and additional fiddling is likely to occur.


1000
Galaxy

950
Nebula
900
Sov, DS9, 

850
Intrep, Refit Ambassador, Akira (looks to be Type X but older), Prometheus
825
New Orleans (sub X)
800
Original Ambassador, Refit B-type Excelsior (per double-emitter), Yeager, Nova B

750
Defiant Beam, Norway, Saber,
700
Challenger, Cheyenne, Niagara, Springfield

625
TNG Miranda rollbar
600
TNG Excelsior (per double-emitter), Centaur, Freedom, Steamrunner

550
TNG Miranda saucer, 
500
Nova A, TMP Constellation, TMP Excelsior B-type

475
TMP Excelsior, TMP Miranda rollbar,
450
TMP Constitution, 
400
TMP Miranda saucer, Olympic

375
TOS Constitution
350
Pike's Constitution (Not STD/SNW Substitution Class), TNG Oberth, 
300
Constitution 2210

250
TMP Oberth, Sydney, INS Scout,
200
Peregrine/Fighter, 

150
TOS Antares/Woden, Daedalus, Danube
100

90
Type-11 (InsSh), 

80
Type-7, Type-10 (DefSh), Type-17 (Argo)

70

65
Type-8 (VoySh)
60
Type-6, Type-18 (DefPod), Type-9 (VoySpeed), 

50
Type-3 (ST5)

40
Class F, Type-15 (TNGPod)

30

20
NX-Pod

10
Argo Buggy (LOL)

5