RE: Fighter use in FT

At 04:22 PM 2/13/98 +1100, you wrote:
>Current FT fighter tactics are dictated by the endurance rules,
>specifically, if the fighters haven't returned to the carrier by the
end
>of the 3rd turn after they run out of endurance, they are considered
>destroyed (MT).  This tends to keep the fighters within about 40" of
>their home carrier to allow rearming.
>
>'Neath Southern Skies

FTIII does away with this and replaces it with three (I think three)
ATTACKS. Thus you can fly out as far as you want but only have a few
shots.

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"If I had time...to study war, I think I should concentrate almost
entirely
on the 'actualities of war,' the effects of tiredness, hunger, fear,
lack
of sleep, weather....The principles of strategy and tactics...are
absurdly
simple: it is the actualities that make war so complicated and so
difficult, and are usually neglected by historians."

--FM Archibald Wavell to B.H. Liddell Hart (as quoted in "Frontsoldaten:
The German Soldier in World War Two" by Stephen G. Fritz.)