Re: FB designs & fighters

At 7:44 PM +0200 5/14/02, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
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>1) The Death Star was not destroyed by "three squadrons of small 
>fighters". The original Death Star was destroyed by ONE fighter - 
>specifically, one fighter piloted by an Ace, who used a scenario 
>house rule allowing him to fire a Needle-style shot to take out the 
>Death Star's power core... and who was lucky enough to roll a "6" to 
>hit with that shot.

But it took all of those squadrons to get in there and fight other 
fighters while one took a run at the thermal exhaust port. Presumably 
the fire that the various fighters were directing at turbo laser 
towers also helped the

>2) The Death Star's guns, like those on the various Star Destroyers 
>in the movies, were ship-killers, not fighter-killers, and rather 
>ineffective against fighters. I'd rate them as B1s at best, not as 
>PDS.

Hmm. You mean just like where Massive SDNs with a few PDS are mobbed 
and killed by fighters?

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