RE: [FT] Yet Another Fighters Suggestion

The problem of that idea is munchkinism - for instance if 200 points of
ships can defeat 150 points of ships most of the time, the side that has
30, ten point ships will almost always defeat the the fleet with 2, 150
point ships, by simply generating a temporary imbalance on the board
(sending 10 one after one ship and twenty after the other).  Based on
current rules, the two 150 point ships won't have more than one or two
firecontrols and will only be able to kill 2 or 4 smaller ships per
turn.

You would have to remove the fire control limitation to further balance
points.  

Right now I see the balance being that smaller ships need to be equipped
with weapons that give a lot of bang for the mass, even if they are
short ranged (needle beams, torpedoes, scatterguns), while larger ships
can afford big, long range weapons and will try to stand-off smaller
ships.

The balance is similar to the difference seen between brown and blue
navies.

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oerjan Ohlson [mailto:oerjan.ohlson@telia.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:44 AM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: [FT] Yet Another Fighters Suggestion
> 
>
> They prefer that capitals should be able to defeat their own 
> points value 
> of fighters while smaller ships can't? I'm not convinced :-/