Re: fighters (shorter than the last rant)

In message <20020513172822.60129.qmail@web12301.mail.yahoo.com>
	  John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- Thomas Barclay <kaladorn@magma.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> > <lister unknown>'s claim about interceptors 
> > being heavy (isn't really that necessary) but 
> > they should be fast. You're thinking closed table 
> 
> Not necessarily if you assume the fighters are either
> 1)escorting the strike in, or 2)defending the target
> in the first place.  Which is the role I've seen most
> interceptors in in Full Thrust.
> 
> John
> 
Well, I've used the for both, but the latter worked rather better than
the former (lousy dice rolls - the attack flight they were escorting
killed more enemy _fighters_ than they did!) :-(

Charles