Re: [GZG] a peek from FT3 on fighters/ordnance (was: Re: FT:XD changes, part 1)

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http://mail.csua.berkeley.edu:8080/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lOn Tue, May 4,
2010 at 1:30 PM, Damond Walker <damosan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Indy <indy.kochte@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ST Die Sources:
> > PDS: 3xST Dice vs Any small target *group* within 6 MU. PDS may fire
> against
> > ships as per FT, doing 1 pt damage on a roll of 6.
> >
>
> So this will require, with my die rolling, 18 PDS to take out a flight
> of fighters.	With Indy's die rolling he'd need an infinite number...
>

You do not have to announce it so loudly.  :-P

>
> > ADS (ex-ADFC) : 3xST Dice vs Any small target *group* within 12 MU.
ADS
> may
> > fire against ships as per PDS.
>
> So you have PDS and Advanced PDS now?
>

Area PDS is how we've been calling it. But Advanced will work.

>
> >
> > Ship Main Weapons: require a dedicated firecon. 1x ST Die vs Any
small
> > target *group* at 1/2 the range of the weapon (e.g, C1 beams have
the
> same
> > range as PDS, C2s have the same range as ADS, pulse torps can reach
out
> to
> > 15 MU, etc)
> >
>
> Not letting larger batteries fire at fighters is a hold over from
> WW1/2 naval games and I'd be GLAD to see it go.

Yes, my argument was that in WW2 naval guns were used in anti-air mode.
Not
as effective as dedicated anti-air weaponry, maybe, but nevertheless...

>  I don't agree with
> the limiting of range though -- a beam can hit a massive thrust-2
> dreadnought just as easily as it can hit a tiny thrust-8 scout.
>
> >
> > CIDS (Close-In Defense System)
> >
>
> And I *really* like the idea of a CID system.
>
> Are you doing anything to limit the strength of fighter attacks?
>

Not at this time.

Yes, this means fighter squadrons can pile onto one ship, but recall the
turn order, every ship within range can lend a helping
pre-fighter-pile-on
hand in reducing the pile. This gives justification to those DDE and
related
ships (sure, the fighters can pile on the DDEs, but then the
accompanying
cap ships can lend *their* fire to the DDE's defense - and DDEs had
better
have CIDS-2 or CIDS-3).

Mk