Re: Earth Force Source Book

>>As for fighter squadrons, well...I think they carry one, but what do I
know?
>I don't think B5 has ever specifically said how many fighters a
squadron
>*is* have they? Given some of the previous season battles (Severed
Dreams
>springs immediately to mind, presuming they were Hyperions not Omegas)
I
>think 'an awful lot' is the answer. I think the way they have done it -
n
>fighter groups but 1 launch bay - is as good a way to simulate it as
any.

They haven't *said*, per se, but if we were to use B5's squadrons as a
baseline, 8-9 fighters per squadron is what it appears.

So in FT terms 8-9 *fighters* is equivalent to 1 FT fighter squadron
that acts like 6 C-batts. I don't have a problem with this.  :)

>The obvious point to make is that until someone actually *builds* a
>hyperion class starship no-one can actually say 'look it's like THIS'.
So
>it's not really something to get all that het up about, IMO. I'd be
much
>more interested in hearing whether the rules systems makes for a game
that
>*feels* like a Babylon-5 battle, rather than whether the bolt on the
>4,358th panel on the side of the Agamemnon is supposed to be square or
>hexagonal.

It's hexagonal.

And metric.

I checked.

;-)

Mk
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