RE: FB Fighter Questions

Damn, someone else noticed.
4 Heavy Attack Squadrons supported by 2 Interceptor & 2 Long Range tend
to munch most ships.

'Neath Southern Skies

-----Original Message-----
From:	Jeff Lyon [SMTP:jefflyon@mail.utexas.edu]

In MT it states that attack fighters get a +1 on die rolls; and thus do
one
point of damage on a roll of 3 or 4 and two points on a 5 or 6.
<snip> 
If attack fighters roll up on a natural six, then the damage looks like
this:

target	   1,2	3  4  5  6  rollups  average sum of 6 rolls
screen 2    -	-  1  1  1    0.6      3.6
screen 1    -	-  1  2  2    1.0      6.0
screen 0    -	1  1  2  2    1.2      7.2

<snip 
However it is handled, attack fighters seem to be either overpowered or
under priced.  Looking at either set of numbers, I think I would rather
face a squadron of torpedo fighters than these little terrors; at least
there would only be one turn of torpedo attacks, while the attack
fighters
just keep coming back for more.  And standard combat endurance in the
Fleet
Book is what, six turns, now?
Jeff