RE: (fwd) Re: [FT] F***ters [was: Operational game]

The use of scatterguns implies that you have to be Kra'vak.  Fighters
are employed by all races.  
The problem is that PDS and ADFC don't get good until you can
concentrate a bunch (i.e. 12 or more) in one place.  Spending 12 mass
per ship on something that may or may not show up can cripple your
fleet.	One solution are Aegis cruisers that mount 18 PDS and 2 ADFC,
that can cover two other ships plus themselves.  The downside again is
that you've devoted an entire cruiser to basically AF/AM defense.

As to your reference of a 10,000 point game, if building soap-bubble
carriers it would equate to 250+ squadrons of fighters.

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Foley [mailto:stiltman@teleport.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 3:41 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: (fwd) Re: [FT] F***ters [was: Operational game]

<<SNIP>>
(2)  The scale of the battle.  Twenty fighters is far less impessive
over a
10,000 point battle than it is in a 1,000 point battle.  In the former,
it's
almost laughable... in the latter, it's indeed nearly unstoppable
without
bringing either scatterguns or a similar number of fighters.
<<SNIP>>

> 
> And of course, this is the main hang-up some people have that I don't
> understand.  If your opponent is using soap-bubble carriers, then by
> definition it's a custom-design game.  Which means that you're no more
> limited in what you're allowed to throw back at them than 
> your opponent is.
> So why are people not simply just throwing the scatterguns 
> together and
> extending the digitus imputicus to the soap bubbles?
> 
> Granted, it's perhaps arguable that PDS isn't quite powerful 
> enough, and
> that perhaps it should be a little stronger.	But fighters, in and of
> themselves, are by no means unstoppable.
> 
> E
> (aka Stilt Man)
> 
>