Oops, redact my posts to OO on DSTest stuff... <sigh>

Wrong list indeed. Visual dyslexia, type 
something, read it again to make sure, see 
what you wanted to type, not what you actually 
typed, send. Find out you f&*73) up. Sigh. 

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions on 
ADS/THADS both from Glenn and OO. That was 
meant for here. 

The THADS was inspired by the idea of Patriots 
or the like engaging incoming dropships off-
board before they arrived - a sort of "pre-
game threat" and perhaps an SG2 like ADE 
concept would cover things pretty well for that. 

For on board fire, I'm thinking of things like 
what happened in the scenario I just ran tonight 
(Operation Haymaker, an assault to capture the 
Governor of Compville by ScanFed mercs at the 
beginning of the NAC-sponsored coup d'etat). 
I've got ADS vehicles scattered around the 
compound, running on passive sensors. Enemy 
VTOLs come in hot and hard loaded with PA 
and with additional PA underslung on droplines 
(more capacity). The ADS wants to cut loose, 
but if you follow book rules for landings, they 
just happen all at once. But if you have your 
ADS crewed (not even necessarily active) you 
can undoubtedly bring it active at the flip of a 
button esp once you have visual... and then the 
enemy are in trouble. (One ADS had LoS in my 
scenario tonight and it blew away one of the 
dangling PA stands.... missed the lander, hit the 
trailing PA....). When I think about some other 
scenarios, I'm planning to piece them together 
into an overall series of games covering the 
NFR/NAC/ScanFed revolution on Compville vs. 
the FSE and the Legion Etrange Colonial. I'll 
probably even throw in a small FT scenario. 

Tomb. 
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Mr. Thomas Barclay
Software Developer & Systems Analyst
thomas.barclay@stargrunt.ca
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