Re: Full Thrust vs Starmada

Roger Burton West wrote:

> And a further note to the effect that the points system is broken,
such
> that massed fighters will always win, unless these "optional" rules
are
> used? 

No, the manouver-10 megaship with the B-10/1 firing out of a rear-side 
arc wins. It stays at speed 100 or so, out of range of fighters, and 
plinks off the carriers.
All you need is a ballroom floor to play in, and a few spare days of 
die-rolling (on one side), and frustration on the other.
Personally, a root-canal therapy looks like a good alternative.

But that requires design-your-own ships, breaking of the "unwritten 
rule" about asymmetrical weapons, a huge area to play in, and is no fun 
anyway. So I'm not concerned about the problem.

FWIW there appear to be 2 competing ways of making fighters more linear.

1. Allow ordinary weapons to fire at them.
2. Require them to attack in "waves"

As an example of 2), perhaps require each fighter group to attack one 
facing (ie 1 hex side). PDSs are then allocated to facings, and can fire

on all fighter groups attacking through there, maximum of 1 PDS per 
facing, as they self-jam a la Vulcan/Phalanx.

(Yes, there are complications when firing at missiles, but let's keep it

at fighters, and ignore ADFC for now).

These rules are essentially the same as the standard ones now in effect,

providing no more than 6 fighter groups are mobbing a single target, and

that the target has no more than 6 PDS systems.

The effect on ships equipped with 40 PDS systems, or attacks involving 
20+ fighter groups, is large.

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