Re: [FT] back to fighters

>From: <Beth.Fulton@csiro.au>
>a stack of 6 fighters is usually a pretty good way of 
>dispatching/crippling ships down here

K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:
>The number 6 was just the first suggestion. It would be up to
playtesting /
>calculations to find the best number.

True, 6 is probably too much.

I would prefer a fixed number so as to not have to make calculations on
the 
fly, or even in advance. I'm stupid, so it has to be simple.

One of the things we want to do is balance fighters against the
fleetbook 
designs, right?
So perhaps we should look at how many fighters we'd expect in such a
battle.

Perhaps four - that seems to me like about what an ordinary carrier, uh,

carries? And I suppose that is about what the FB1 designs were balanced 
against. Not too large battles with not much more than one carrier on
each 
side.

Now, I'm not that an experienced FT:er (more of an SG type of guy), but 
while six sounds too much, wouldn't four be in the spectrum of 
good-but-not-overpowering? I have an inkling that three would be on the 
verge of not enough.

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