RE: [GZG]Somanyquestions [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Welcome to the breach!	Don't mind the sheep or the Narn Bat Squad...
Trying to answer in order:

1.  MT Missiles as written are "obsolete" compared to salvo missiles
(easier to intercept by PDS, low damage).  There are beta rules for
updated missiles floating around that rebalances them to FTFB status.

2.  Fighter Bays and Hanger Bays are very similar.  The only "in game"
distinction I can see is the ability to re-arm and relaunch fighters
during a game.	They both require 1.5 mass per 1 mass of ship and cost
the same.  PSB-wise, you could operate fighters from regular hanger bays
(lots of room), but couldn't operate interface landers from a fighter
bay (specialty design for combat launch/recovery of fighters).	
	In theory, you could operate a fleet carrier with only 1 hanger
bay (holding 6-8 squadrons + interface shuttles and other spacecraft),
but a single threshold check would eviscerate the ship.
	Hanger Bays are generally used to carry "parasite" warships
between star systems (such as mass 3 banzai jammers or mass 4 fast scout
ships).

3.  Very rusty on DSII rules, so I'll leave that one.

4.  Interfacing between FT, SG & DS depends on what you want to do, and
what the end result is.  The "common" method of interfacing is:
A.  Play the FT planetary assault to suppress space defences and ground
based missile/fighter launch sites.
B.  Abstract the initial landing of forces onto the planet (don't forget
your freighters to bring those forces in!  1 FT Mass = 20 CS of DSII
cargo.
C.  Use DSII to fight out pitched battles involving entire companies and
armoured assaults (with fighter and Ortillery support).
D.  Use SGII to fight "special forces" scenarios from 1-3 companies with
a small number of supporting vehicles.
	If you want to include points costing, the currently accepted
conversion rates (based on long math and PSB discussions) is that 1 NPV
= 60 DS points.  As SG doesn't have a point system, you pay for those as
the abstract DS forces and arm them appropriately according to your
doctrine.

Brendan
'Neath Southern Skies
http://home.pacific.net.au/~southernsk/

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	From:  On Behalf Of James Austin
	Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 3:50 PM
	Subject: [GZG] So many questions [TO BE CLASSIFIED]
	
	
	 I havn't seen any reference to missiles (ie single shot
missiles as decribed in More Thrust) in any of the canon ship designs in
either of the fleet books. Only salvo missiles. In the desription of
Salvo missiles in FB1, it doesn't seem to be saying that the intention
was to replace the old style missiles, and yet they seem to have done
so. Am I missing something? 

	 In Fullthrust, are hangar bays and fighter bays effectively the
same thing, or or they distinct? ie if a ship were to carry interface
craft and fighters would it need seperate bays? Perhaps each fighter
wing needs it own bay? Or maybe a ship just needs a certain amount of
mass dedicated to space for bays and its all just one big hangar? I'm
sorry but I cant quite wrap my head around bays in general. Anyone care
to clear things up for me?
 
	 One thing that I found unclear for Dirtside II was the rules
for infantry firing upon vehicles. Do they still need to test for
effective fire as described in the rules for infantry firefights? (It is
a different situation when you're firing a missile at a tank 3.6km away
than when you're enaging infantry at say 500m.) I'm guessing that IAVR
shots are affected by checks for effective fire.
	 On that topic, do manpad LAD and mortars need to make
effectiveness checks as well? 
	
	 I've only read the rules for Dirtside and Full Thrust (ie the
downloadable rules books) but can anyone suggest to me whether Stargrunt
or Dirtside would be better as ground combat rules to interface with
Full Thrust? This is the type of situation that most interests me right
now: Multi battle scenarios involving invasions of planets, including
the naval (space) battle to breach system defences followed by planetary
invasions. 
	James


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