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Do fighters get to "pin" enemy fighter squadrons in
a 'dogfight and prevent them moving?
I thought fighter groups just ended movement within
6Mu and opened fire. I don't think of that so much as a dog fight. More like
long range combat with missiles.
If 1 mu = 1000 kms or even 1km that would be a very
long range to hit a target with a railgun round from one fighter to
another.
The best radar systems today don't have separate
scan and track modes because it gives away the fact thet they are locked up and
the target can evade. Why can't the firecontrol represent how sphisticated the
ships comupter system is at calculating intercept vectors rather than it's own
active sensor intensity. With lightspeed weapons it is very likely that you
might know that you had been detected and then a light speed particle stream
passes through your fighter.
I'd expect that a fighter would be evasively
manouvering with a randomised course change all the time to prevent being zapped
by capital ship weapons.
My groups experience was that it was too
complicated to record evasions for different groups of fighters. We allow ship
weapons to target fighters but with a flat -2 drm representing the ability of
the fighters to dodge.
Fast and simple and produces the effect that massed
ship weapons can damage fighter groups but that specialist anti ordnance are
still better.
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