Re: PDS and fighters

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On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:59 PM, John Tailby <john_tailby@xtra.co.nz>
wrote:

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> Also it is a break in the game that a 6 mass fighter squadron can't be
> targetted by beam weapons, yet a 6 mass ship gets ripped apart. Are FT
> targetting systems so variable that a mass 1 missile and a mass 2 ship
have
> completely different target profiles?
>
> In the pre-alpha version of the FT3 rules that some of the playtesters
have been working on, ship weapons can indeed target fighter squadrons
(and
missile ordnance). However, they can only hit one fighter in a squadron,
not every fighter.

And ship weapon ranges are reduced, however, when firing at these
smaller
targets.

Mk