Re: [GZG] Squadron size

[Oerjan Ariander <oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxx>]

John Atkinson wrote:

> Anyway, the point of this is this:  Anyone ever played around with
> using larger squadrons than the 6-ship ones assumed in the rules?

Both larger and smaller groups, yes. My main inspiration wasn't real-world 
combat though, but rather SF movies and TV shows - Star Wars rebel fighters 
operating in 3-fighter groups facing TIE fighters in 4-fighter groups, etc.

> Due to the way the rules for hanger size are written, odd-numbered
> squadrons would be difficult to work.  Are there any game balance
> issues that immediately spring to anyone's mind?

Plenty of them. The biggest ones are PDS rerolls (groups with less than 6 
fighters don't have enough "hit points" to let the PDSs reach their nominal 
average of 0.8 fighter kills per die) and movement initiative vs fire 
initiative (for a given number of fighters, organising them into lots of 
small groups gives an advantage during movement - you get to move more 
groups later on, thus being able to react to the enemy fighters' moves - 
but suffer a disadvantage in combat since many of the small groups will 
*fire* after the opposition does; if the fighters are instead organised 
into a few large groups you get the opposite initiative effects instead).

Regards,

Oerjan
oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxx

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 What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
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