1) There are other weapons systems in many clubs. However they are generally based on springs, strings, CO2, etc.

2) How did it come to be this way? Decades of development trying lots of stuff to determine what is safe and effective in the game. That, and finding what activities are also insurable.

3) Some clubs do have Torpedoes, many have mines, some have depth charges, some have catapults (for planes), none have radio scramblers (first, this is illegal under FCC regulations, second it is patently unsafe, and third, how is it fun if you can't play the game - remember, if you can have a scrambler, so can everyone else, and all radios will be scrambled so no-one can play?)

Why is it that so many want to have the invulnerable super ship that destroys everything it its path without sustaining any damage itself? Where is the sport in being a bully and just destroying stuff? You could do that by not even building a ship - just bring a 12 gauge to the pond and start shooting people's ships. Hopefully they would see this as wrong, but whey are advocating something that is the equivalent.

Fun, to me, is pitting your skill against someone with equal or better equipment, under the rules, and winning against the odds.

There are plenty of variations in ships and club types to give you lots of choice as it is.

Sorry for the rant, but it is a bit frustrating to see people who have never built a combat ship nor seen a battle get such joy in envisioning total destruction of a ship that may have cost well over $1000 and taken up to 18 months to build when the point is not that, but to give and sustain easily repairable damage and sinks. It also hurts the sport for a casual reader to come across this kind of reckless discourse and get the idea that this is what we are all about.

Cheers,

Wreno