RE: Carriers & Fighter Capacity

Try using:
Each Launch Bay: 12mass (accounts for doors/corridors to hangers)
Each Hanger: 6 mass
Each hanger must be attached to a launch bay or another hanger
(daisy-chained). It takes 1 turn to move fighters from a hanger to a
launch
bay or another hanger. Done at the beginning of the fighter launch
sequence
(so cannot move one up if there is a fighter in the launch bay). Launch
bay
may hold 1 fighter unit by itself.

Unbalancing (getting fighters at reduced mass) in games where fighters
can
start pre-launched  or have multiple turns before engaging enemy ships.

Or you could have 1 Op Deck for all fighters (would make them more
vulnerable to threshold checks) and multiple launch bays. But the same
problem exists -- games where fighters are launched at the start.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Bilderback [mailto:bbilderback@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 15:22
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: FT: Carriers & Fighter Capacity

I've been considering the rules for fighters.  Under the current rules,
a 
ship can store, launch, and recover 6 fighters for 9 mass.  That means
that 
every flight has it's own hangar, launch facility, and recovery
facility.  
It's a good thing modern carriers don't work quite like that.  Has
anyone 
ever tried any alternate rules for separate storage/shared launch &
Recovery

for dedicated carriers in FT?  I was thinking of something like making
each 
"Hangar bay" worth 5 mass per flight, and each "Operations deck" worth 4

mass. The carrier could carry as many fighters as it had bays, but only 
launch and recover as many flights per turn as it has ops decks - sort
of 
like the difference between SML's and SMR's (Only Different).  This
would 
make it remain more economical to buy full 9-mass fighter flights for
BB's, 
DN,'s, etc, but give a litttle incentive to designing good dedicated 
carriers.  Thoughts from the list?

3B^2

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