RE: [FT] Fighter combat

In message <LPBBKBCFNDINFCDLIANGMEDHCPAA.alfie.finch@btinternet.com>
	  "Alfie Finch" <alfie.finch@btinternet.com> wrote:

[snip]
> 
> It does raise the question of why were the fighter endurance
> rules changed in the first place ? In MT the rules were ;
> 
> Fighter Endurance
> Fighters are assumed to only have a limited combat endurance,
> due to restrictions on the life support and munitions that they
> can carry. To simulate this dependency on a carrier, they are
> considered to have a combat endurance of three turns of combat.
> Fighters may ‘loiter’ for as long as they like, but if firing,
> or fired upon, they use one turn of combat endurance.
> 
> I agree with the removal on the time limit to return to carrier
> after CEF is used up, but there must have been some reason why
> CEF was increased from 3 to 6 in the first place ?
> >
> >SNIP<
> >
> Rgds,
> 
> Alfie
> http://www.alfie.finch.btinternet.co.uk/
> 
>
I _think_ fighters were given extra endurance to enable them to make use
of the secondary movement rule introduced in Fleet Book 1.

Charles