Re: PDS and fighters

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>So how does the range band reduction work for smaller ships? Do you 
>get to hit larger ships at long range and smaller ships get the 
>equivalent of stealth to reduce the effective range of weapons as 
>their smaller energy signature makes them harder to lock onto?
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My quick-and-dirty solution for the proposed draft is very simple: 
for all vehicles defined as "Small Craft", such as fighters, 
shuttlecraft etc of less than 1 mass each, DOUBLE the actual range to 
the target for range band purposes - so a small craft/fighter group 
that is at 8mu range would be treated as if at 16mu, thus in the 
second band for beam weapons.

Jon (GZG)

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>From: Indy <indy.kochte@gmail.com>
>To: gzg@firedrake.org
>Sent: Friday, 17 February 2012 1:44 AM
>Subject: Re: PDS and fighters
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>On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:59 PM, John Tailby <john_tailby@xtra.co.nz>
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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?
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>>  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..
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>And ship weapon ranges are reduced, however, when firing at these
smaller
>targets.
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>Mk