[FT] Phalon Fighters
From: Charles Taylor <nerik@m...>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 00:16:48 +0100
Subject: [FT] Phalon Fighters
As a tangent to the fighter discussions...
Ideas for Phalon Fighters.
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Configurable Weapons: Most Phalon Fighters mount an 'ultralight pulsar'
similar to the ship-mounted version, but much smaller, like the
ship-mounted version, these can be configured to fire in different
modes, and follow the same rules for configuration (but see below).
The 3 modes are:
Multi-purpose - as a standard fighter
Anti-fighter - as an interceptor
Anti-Ship - as an attack fighter
Typical Fighters mounting these:
Nith Class (4 points each)
Tuus class (heavy fighter) (6 points each)
Vaan Class (fast fighter - was called an interceptor) (5 points each)
These is also a long range version that resembles the Tuus, but is only
as resilient as the Nith.
Plasma Bolt fighters: these mount a one-shot, miniature version of the
plasma bolt launcher, either...
treat these as torpedo fighters, but they only inflict damage on a roll
of 4 or 5 vs. level 1 screen, or a roll of 4 vs. level 2 screens, they
have no secondary armament (cost 5 each)
or...give them a mini plasma bolt, launched as placed ordinance, radius
1 mu (.5 mu in vector), damage 1D6. (cost ??? each)
or... mini PB too small to be noticed in FB scale, but big enough to
auto-hit - treat fighter as torp fighter, but any die roll does damage,
level 1 screen negates 6s, level 2 screen negates 5+ (cost 6-7 points)
Vapour Shroud fighters
This mount no weapons, but have a small vapour shroud gland - each
fighter can produce enough vapour to shroud 5 MASS of ship (so a full
flight can shroud 30 MASS).
Can be used to shroud friendly ships if screening as if they had a
vapour shroud gland.
Can shroud enemy ships, makes them harder to hit, but blocks target
ships firecon - can be engaged by PDS, but the vapour shroud fighters
get the benefit of the shroud.
Fighters only have enough 'fuel' for 1 shroud without re-arming.
(cost ??? points)
It needs some more detail (like names for some of them), but what does
everybody think?
Charles