RE: Fire Control lock-on musings side benefits

A side benefit of having lock-on things is that it would be relatively
easy
to create reasons for having assigned squadrons and flagships in your
fleet.

As mentioned before just say that all ships in the same squadron may
share
targeting data.  Squadrons stay within a given distance from the
"command
vessel" of that squadron.  This would help out all those 1 FCS ships out
there some people seem to be concerned about getting hosed by the
Lock-On
rules.	A command vessel must be a ship larger than all ships under it
or a
specially equipped "command" version of the same size.	You could give
ships
"command ratings" which determine how many ships can be coordinated.  Or
some other designation the naval types can spell out much better than I.

A ELINT ship may be assigned to a squadron to lend support in the form
of
ECM/ECCM.  This ship could be represented as having a special ECM system
and
just lots of FCS.  ECM could be given a rating which can be "loaned" to
a
nearby vessel.	Easy enough on first look.

Scout ships could lend FCS data over a greater distance than normal
vessels.

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Now this idea I like! Sort of the Command Datalink from Weber's stuff,
or a
Sci-Fo version of integrated air-defense.

David