Re: Fighters and Hangers

["Mike Hillsgrove" <mikeah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >>fighter rules complex with something that works... but I can't get
> >>any such new rules into [OFFICIAL] print until FT3 gets published.

We are replaceing the fighter rules locally with the system lifted entirely
from SeaPower II/III.  It's clean, fast, allows for wide variations of
types, and quality.  Perfect.

Essentially,  it's a matrix of fighters, for each fighter a die is thrown.
Depending on the values in the matrix, hits are scored and the battle ends,
ordinance expended.  I'm using the same system for AA and fighter launched
torpedos/bombs.

For example, 12 WildCats engage 8 Zeros (pretend that they are future
fighters.  The matrix is consulted and we find the WildCats roll RED's
(ones) and the ZERO's roll Yellows (2 &3).  12 dice are rolled for the
Wildcats counting the red faces (1's) and the ZERO's roll 8 dice looking for
2's and 3's.   The Zero's in this case represent the better fighter, but in
the words of Stalin "Quantity has a quality all of it's own!"

I want to limit antiship attacks to torpedo and bomb carrying "specialist"
craft, as I am assuming that weapons large enough to damage a 25th century
spaceship would render a fighter incapable of dogfighting.  Historical
precedence for this.   This also allows the use of real tactics.