Re: Fighters or Bricks?

I found that the "More Thrust" order of movement to be too limiting to
fighter groups.  If you use the rules from FT instead (without fighter
endurance etc.), you'll see why you might want to reduce the number of
fighters in a group to four.

-Joe

At 10:16 AM 4/16/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>	I tried using fighter endurance but - like missiles - it made a
playable
>>game less enjoyable.	So, to lessen the impact of fighter groups I use
>>fighter squads.  They have unlimited endurance, cost and weigh as much
as
>>the fighter groups except each fighter squad consists of four
fighters.  A
>>fighter squad gets only 4 attack dice instead of 6.
>>
>>-Joe
>
>	 I have been playing FT/MT for a short time and have used the
More
>Thrust rules on fighter order of movement. I have not found fighters to
be
>unbalanced or overly powerful at all. If anything they appeared to be
too
>weak in comparison to the A battery.
>	 What have I missed? With the limited speed of fighters and
their
>vulnerability, (especially to scatterguns) how are you using them so
>effectively?
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