Nova Cannon Escort! (home made rules)

[kingperson]

I like my nova cannons, so I decided to come up with a nova cannon escort. My regular opponent and I are understanding when it comes to using home made ships, so I might actually use this someday.

Porcupine Long Range Bombardment Vessel
Escort/1
Speed: 25
Turns: 90
Shields: 1
Turrets: 1

Weapons:
Prow Nova Cannon

Special Rules:
-The nova cannon shoots up to 100 cm, with a minimum range of 25 cm.
-Must reload ordnance before firing nova cannon, but cannot run out.
-Cannot fire nova cannon if a turn has been made in the preceeding movement phase.

Cost: 50 points

Ideas? Is this underpriced? Overpriced?

[Blacksnotling]

Personally I wouldn't allow an escort to have a Nova cannon mounted on an escort as I view them as huge guns.

However the rules you made don't seam that bad although it does appear to be a bit underpriced. I would imagine that a squadren of these escorts would be quite damaging, only if they managed to avoid the opponents fire

[kingperson]

What if I limited them to 3 per fleet?

[CyberShadow]

I am with Blacksnotling on this one. I would not think that an Escort physically had the power resources to run a Nova. Also, an Escort gives you the speed and manoeuvrability that a Nove does not normally have. 50 points is too low, and alimit should certainly be introduced.