Re: Squadron movement?

Flakmagnet72 wrote:

>A few of the guys in my FT group has tossed out the idea of moving and
firing
>smaller ships as a squadron.  Has this idea been tossed about,
dissected and
>explored by this group in the past?

Squadron movement is described in More Thrust, so shouldn't be very 
controversial. It speeds up movement considerably.

Squadron firing has been tried (should be in the archive somewhere), but
it 
doesn't have as big an effect as might be expected. While it removes one
of 
the large ships' advantages (the ability to fire more weapons earlier in

the turn) it does nothing about the others (longer between threshold 
checks, more FCSs per ship means that the ship is much less likely to
run 
out of FCSs entirely, more DCPs per ship means that even a damaged ship
has 
enough DCPs to repair things whereas on small ships most of the
surviving 
DCPs are on ships which haven't yet been damaged), so unless the
small-ship 
squadrons combined are significantly bigger than the enemy large ships
the 
latter still have the overall advantage. Of course it depends on how 
exactly you form your squadrons, but the concept turned out to be rather

trickier to get to work well than expected.

Regards,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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