Re: Fighter Numbers/Regroup Option

Scott Field wrote:
>Hmmm...presumably, 6 pilots who have trained together will be a more
>effective team than 6 who have never met. Maybe fighters from the same
>carrier could combine without penalty, but combining fighters from
different
>carriers creates a squadron of "turkeys" as per MT?

Good point.  I did not include anything about pilot ratings or carrier
source.  If you don't use pilot skill ratings, combining should work
fine.
During past wars, pilots have teamed up with pilots from other countries
to
fight together. While not the perfect fighting machine, the combined
effort
helped moral as well as continued fighting strength.

How about the following for mixing pilot skill ratings:

If 75+% of the pilots are Ace, then the group is Ace.
If 75+% of the pilots are Turkeys then the group is Turkey.
If less than 75% of the pilots are Ace and less than 75% of the pilots
are
Turkeys than the group is Normal.

>Of course, I can't think
>of any real advantage to having 1 squadron of 6 fighters, as opposed to
2
>squadrons of 3 each, so there'd be no incentive to regroup? Is there?

Sure there is.	For dogfighting, it would be in your best interest to
attack
with the maximum fighters allowed.

Mike Miserendino