RE: [FT] Single-shot Fighter combat

On Friday, May 10, 2002 5:55 AM, Brian Bilderback
[SMTP:bbilderback@hotmail.com] wrote:
> >From: KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de (K.H.Ranitzsch)
> 
> >Sounds reasonable PSB-wise, just one missile load/energy charge big
enough
> >to do serious damage to a ship.
> 
> That's what I thought too.
> 
> >Can't comment on the balance issue
> 
> The more I think about it, the more merit it has, although I don't
know if

> it addresses the need to make SMALL numbers of fighters viable.  It 
> definitely curtails the locustiness of large swarms of fighters, and
it 
> really cramps Soapbubbles, since if a carrier can't survive long
enough to

> rearm its fighters, those fighters are useless against anything but
other 
> fighters.

If you're only bringing one squadron, you just make them Torp/Attack
fighters.  It has a meaningful damage result if you don't expect enemy
fighters. 

Brendan
'Neath Southern Skies