RE: Re: Fighters options please

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	  "laserlight@quixnet.net" <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:

> From: Brian Bilderback bbilderback@hotmail.com
> >When engaging missiles or other fighters, fighters may engage in as
many 
> dogfights as their endurance allows.	However, once a fighter squadron
makes 
> an attack on a ship, it may not make another attack on a ship until it
has 
> returned to it's own ship, landed, and re-launched.
> 
> Rather than just say "only one attack" perhaps "attacking a ship costs
X CEF"--let's say 3 for the sake of plucking a number out of the air. 
Add this to the "fighters burn a CEF every turn plus extra for
combat/secondary move" and that may fix the fighter problem.  If
carriers are close, fighters can go rearm but the carrier is at risk. 
If carriers are distant, you're not going to lose many ships to swarms
because they can't just keep working their way around your fleet. 
> 
> This avoids PSB problems  with "PDS attack everyone" and "only a
limited numbert of fighters can fit in a 6000km radius globe in 15
minutes" and will allow tactics eg interceptors can force incoming
strikes to burn some of their CEF; fighters may have to chose to hit a
minor target just because it's close enough and nothing else is.  Good,
good, good.  
> 
> 
Long Range fighters suddenly become a lot more useful as well.

Charles