RE: [FT] Rules Questions

I had to address this in my campaign rulesets; 50/50 pilot losses with
replacements costing 10 pts per pilot.	Roll a d6; if it's less than the
number of replacements, the squadron is down graded to turkey for the
next
combat.  Upgrade a squadron to Aces after 5 battles where they score 10
hits
or more.

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[Firestorm] Battletech PBeM GM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Llaneza [SMTP:imperialdispatches@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 4:38 AM
> To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject:	RE: [FT] Rules Questions
> 
> The big problem with fighters as attrition units is pilot quality.
Look at
> what
> happened to the Japanese in WWII. At the end, they supposedly had 5000
> aircraft
> saved up for a massive Kamikaze strike on US forces invading Japan.
And
> for
> pilots, they had a total of (blatant estimate) maybe 25,000 hours of
> flight
> time - split between the pilots for all of them (some with 100 +, most
> with 10+
> hours). The USN was giving its carrier pilots about 200 hours each
before
> they
> got into combat. This more than completely reversed the situation at
the
> start
> of the war when the IJN had some of the best trained pilots (400+
hours)
> in the
> world (and nobody believed they did, so it came as a surprise)
> 
> This happened for two reasons:
> 
> Loss of trained pilots in battle - killing future instructors
> Loss of resources and time for training new pilots.