Re: Fighters options please

Roger Burton West wrote:

>We need test games. :-)

You're welcome. :-)

>Option 1: as standard rules but a turn in which the group attacks a
ship
>expends 3 CEF (as opposed to 1 at present).
>
>Effect: an unintercepted group can make two attacks then limp home.
>Anyone else just gets one. Does not blunt the first-strike power of a
>soap-bubble group.
>
>Option 2: as option 1, but fighters must expend a minimum of 1 CEF per
>turn. (So either 3 or 4 would be expended in the ship-attack turn. I'd
>go with 3.)
>
>Effect: nobody gets two attacks without rearming. Has some effect in
>reducing the soap-bubble group's power, but only if the groups can be
>intercepted on the way in; may well not be sufficient to deal with the
>perceived problem here.

Which is why I originally suggested 1 anti-ship attack per sortie,
period.

>I think this is a very interesting idea, but I'm not convinced that it
>will deal with the perceived problems on its own.

Maybe, maybe not, but it goes a long way towards addressing it.

3B^2

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