RE: balancing Fighters

>However, the advantage to firing at attacking fighters makes sense.
>Course, this tends to be from my limited movie viewing of WWII battles,
>but fighters on the attack tend to be moving straight at the ship, and
>therefore tend not to have problems with target aspect(?).
>

In a modern sea battle, it hardly matters as long as the fighters
are in range of the Sea Dart/Cat or whatever other fast and accurate
AA missile the ship possesses. Though target aspect matters slightly to
the
chance of a kill, its less important that with gunnery deflection. 

The list members who serve on *real* ships would have the real dope
on this situation, I've only played Harpoon and EF2000 :-)

This is more likely to be a more accurate reflection of future
technology 
(as its nearer the future) that the days of pom-poms and Bofors guns.

As for big guns for AA, an earlier thread concluded it as a non starter
in WWII (very very rare and total pants)

-= tim jones =-