Re: Fighters

On Mon, 6 May 2002 20:02:55 -0700, "Eric Foley" <stiltman@teleport.com>
wrote:

>Yes, but there's a problem with this argument:  it goes both ways, and
>you're not accounting for that.  

Okay, here's the math.

Komarov: 751 NPV.
41 fighter squadrons: 738 NPV

Let's create a single ship based on a Komarov hull (strong, 220 mass).
It has
88 hull boxes. It has room for 88 PDS. Give it drive 2 and an FTL drive,
and
_nothing else_ and it costs 748 points, still 10 points more than 41
fighter
squadrons. 88 PDS would do 70.4 points of damage, on average. This
reduces the
fighters to about 176 out of the original 240. They would then do 140
points
of damage, destroying, utterly, the ship.

So, it's quite clear that a single ship of equal point value armed with
nothing but anti fighter weapons is no match whatsoever for an equal
point
value of fighters. 

Allan Goodall		       agoodall@hyperbear.com
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