Re: Troop Capacity

You wrote: 

>When I say 'drop' I mean get them from your carrier sitting out of 
>range of the planetary defenses, then run the gauntlet of said 
>planetary defenses for probably thousands of miles, to close 
>enough for them to make an attack, where they also have to fight the 
>planets fighters, the non aeroSPACE type... just aero, since they 
>would be somewhat cheaper.
>The initial approach is a dangerous part, the 'drop' where the fully 
>functioning defenses get to blast at them for a goodly time. 

A goodly time?	What version of Full Thrust do you play, man?  PDSs 
have a 6" range, which is identical to the attack range of a fighter.  
And they can (now that fleet book is out) move 24" in a turn.  During a 
turn a PDS can take down a max of two fighters (and has a 50% chance of 
killing NONE).	Now, you can translate inch to whatever you 
like--meters to kalicams to parsecs--but the rules don't change.  You 
wanna build some uberPDS, that's fine with me, but don't take that 
assumption into a discussion of Full Thrust without saying something 
like "In my universe, PDSs have a 6' range" or whatever.

John M. Atkinson