Re: FT: Carriers & Fighter Capacity

Here's a refinement of that idea:  Limit the number of fighters that can
attack a single ship *per firing arc of the ship*.  This would a
tactical element as "where" you attack from will now be relevant if
you're trying to swarm a large ship with fighters... ("Yellow group will
take longer to swing around for an effective attack run, so red group
has to linger out of AFPDS range long enough for them to take part in a
co-ordinated attack.")

  Bow and Aft arcs (aft actually being a non-firing arc, really) could
have a lower number of possible attacking fighter, not so much due to an
assumption that ships will generally be linear in shape, but because the
forward motion of the ship along the fore-aft axis would limit the
effective attack vectors.  If it wouldn't make it "too complicated", the
bow should have even fewer than the stern, because of the assumption
that fighters can't fire through an aft arc just like the big ships, and
to maneuver to keep getting a good head-on attack vector you have to
turn away from the target sometime... 

Comments?  Am I forgetting the KISS principle?	(Keep It Simple Stupid).

--Flak

On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 12:45, Brian Bilderback wrote:
> >From: Flak Magnet <flakmagnet@tabletop-battlezone.com>
> 
> >Which seems realistic (as opposed to arbitrary) when you consider
that
> >the different flights of fighters have to worry about co-ordinating
> >their fire and vectors in order be able to do significant damage.  If
> >one flight screws up another's vector then you have both flights
> >breaking formation, not making attack runs and generally getting
hosed
> >out of the sky by ship anti-fighter defenses.  Perhaps basing the max
> >numbers of fighter that can attack by the ships classification (and
thus
> >general size/mass).
> 
> Which ALSO seems to make sense, since the larger the ship being
attacked, 
> the larger the practical area around a ship that can be filled with 
> attacking fighters.
> 
> I still have a question as to what number of fighters is a good range
for a 
> carrier supporting other ships?
> 
> 3B^2
> 
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