Re: Re: [GZG] Re: Full Thrust Playtest? Plama bolts

["Eric Foley" <stiltman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, if there were two major categories of things that would draw point 
defense, we made them allocate in blocks as to how much got used against 
plasma, how much against missiles, and how much against fighters.  Any point 
defense you fired at fighter attacks blew away an equal proportion of each 
different sort of fighters, with the idea that they were assumed to have 
good enough electronics that you couldn't easily tell who was equipped with 
torpedoes and who wasn't.

We also never would have had multiple "half squadrons" in our games, these 
got recombined.  Fighter morale would've required too much bookkeeping (and 
our PBS usually held that the interstellar powers that used fighters in any 
numbers would usually use automated or lobotomized pilots of some sort that 
didn't care whether they survived or not).

In the actual games, missile-fighter combinations never actually came up.  I 
was quite fond of combining plasma with fighters, because the area defense 
phalanxes that were most effective against fighters were natural targets for 
concentrated plasma.  Missiles and fighters didn't really strike me as 
something where you got enough of a return on your investment to be worth 
combining instead of using just one or the other, so I never used them 
together.  A combined plasma-and-fighter offense with beams for a modest 
secondary offense to keep people honest on ship-to-ship engagements and 
scatterguns to keep them honest on fighters were pretty much the optimal 
strategy in our games.  (Yes, we mixed tech among the non-SV freely.)

E

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Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [GZG] Re:  Full Thrust Playtest? Plama bolts


> >This is true, we rolled everything over in PDS and fighter fire against 
> >other fighters, missiles, and plasma, if I recall correctly.
>
> If you didn't allocate PDS, how did you do it? Let's say you have 3 
> cruisers with 6PDS each, defending against 5 missiles, 2 torpedo fighter 
> squadrons, 2 intact standard fighter squadrons s and 2 half-squadrons of 
> standard fighters.
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