Re: Fighters and Hangers

At 9:09 PM -0500 3/4/04, Laserlight wrote:
>Ryan Gill wrote:
>Why not just say that 1 fighter can pin 1 
>fighter. a 1 fighter group pinning a 6 fighter 
>group is going to see 4-5 of the fighters going 
>on their merry way while 1-2 stay behind
>
>First, I suspect that you'd be inclined to stay 
>put and keep your squadron together -- 
>three-to-one is a lot better odds than leaving 
>your buddies to fend for themselves at 
>one-to-one.

Depends on their tasking. If 12 torpedo bombers 
are making a run on a ship and 2 fighters dive in 
on their 6. Two are going to turn and probably 
try to hold off the fighters and the other 10 are 
going to burn in on their target if at all 
possible.

>But firster, in fact firstest by quite a ways, 
>is that more fighter groups on the table seems 
>to mean **much** more time moving fighters 
>around, counting them, knocking them over, 
>firing them, et cetera.

It takes away the advantage of breaking them up 
into smaller units for some kind of artificial 
advantage. 6 on 2 should be a decided advantage 
and a decided defensive disadvantage.

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