Re: Fighters....Re: Full Thrust vs Starmada

>  
> In a message dated 4/26/05 2:48:04 PM Central Daylight Time,	
> ladue@cse.Buffalo.EDU writes:
> 
> <snip>The biggest "real world" objection to an all  strike
> boat force is that most forces wouldn't be able to recruit  enough
suicidal
> fools to man such a fleet.
> 
> 
> grant
> 
> 
> Two Letters - IF.  
>  
> Gracias,
> 
> Glenn  "warbeads"
> 

    I know, I know, but even with a religious directive to enable them,
a force
  would have a hard time affording to train a huge number of expendable
"crew".
  Each strikeboat is going to need a minimum of 1 pilot, 1 gunner, and 1

  engineer.  Odds are they would really need more than that.  That's a
lot of
  crew training expense to lose to a class 4 shot at 48 MU.  While a
fighter
  pilot may require *more* training, the fighters have the advantage of
not
  being anywhere near as vulnerable to fire from the enemy fleet, *and*
when 
  they get killed the specialists in maintaining the fighter don't die
with 
  them.  A real fleet based around strikeboats (as opposed to using
moderate 
  numbers of strikeboats as an adjunct) is just going to be too stressed
by the
  the logistics of it all.  
    The strikeboat concept is a fun one to play with sometime, but it's
not
  truly viable in a "real world" way.  Of course, you guys know that. 
:-)

  grant