In the middle of a rebuild and this ship has never had a water channel. I have the room. Just wondering the necessary to install a water channel. I can see the benefits but are they great enough to add on?
What ship? Generally speaking I would put in a water channel, however on smaller ships you raise the center of gravity just that little bit.
up to your local crew for non sanctioned battles locally we houseruled them ok (basically require that you use the BC micro pump only with a half unit restrictor). YMMV but we didn't like the idea that any leak was an eventual doombringer (we also did away with any halo rules, limit to attacking ships, etc)