Re: FB2 - Torpedo & P Torp

Brian Bell wrote:

>>The "heavy single-shot anti-ship weapons" carried by Torpedo
>>Fighters aren't necessarily P-torps - indeed, the Torp Fighter
>>descriptions in both MT and FB2 very carefully do *not* use the term
>>"Pulse Torpedo" to describe the weapon.
> 
>May I respectfully ask then, what is it that a Torpedo Fighter is
>shooting? 

As the rule says, they fire "heavy single-shot anti-ship weapons" - of
*any* type. This can be it very short-ranged missiles (ie. oversized
sub-munition packs), P-torp-style weapons, a spread of small kinetic
penetrators; anything which ignores screens and inflicts serious damage
in a single salvo.

>Since MT had missiles, I would say that it is not a self-guided, 
>self-motive projectile (i.e. missile) or they would have been called 
>missile fighters.

I would say that they were named in analogy with wet-navy torpedo
fighters <shrug>

>it is an unguided or non-self-motive physical ordinance, then the
to-hit >is way off.

Why? While weapon more than four times larger than the entire *fighter*
use one particular to-hit mechanism for "unguided or non-self-motive
physical ordinance" (well... five different to-hit mechanisms actually;
Lance Pods, K-gun slugs/P-torps, Scatterguns, Waveguns/Nova Cannon and
Plasma Bolts all qualify as "unguided or non-self-motive physical
ordinance"), why does a fighter weapon need to use that exact
mechanism?

I see no reason whatsoever to assume that the rules about specialized
single-shot *fighter* weapons should apply to ship-carried multi-shot
weapons... particularly not when said ship-carried multi-shot weapon
isn't even mentioned by its full name in the fighter rule!

Regards,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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