Re: DS2 VTOL vs ADS

At 18:55 29/01/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Ward Bowman wrote:
>
>> 
>>   I would think that HAWK and Patriot are still relatively close to
the
>> forward area.  Things like THAAD (Theater High Altitude Air Defense)
>> would more in the area you are mentioning.
>
>I don't think so.  When I was a 24T (Pat. crewman) at any rate we were
>supposed to be in the "Corp" area.
SNIP
>Patriot is designed for nailing A/C at over 40K range.  If short range
>field artillery is allowed to be off board in DSII then some form of
ADA
>should also be off board.
>
>For that matter, Nike Herc (what Patriot replaced) had a range of over
>100K.
>
>J. Michael Looney
>(former duck hunter for the US Army)

How about something along the lines of the air superiority determination
in
WRGs 1925-50 rules?  Each side spends a number of points to buy a
hoped-for
level of control of the air (Dispute, Obtain and Ensure AS are 3 levels
I
recall off-hand).  Whenever the opposition has aircraft on table (in
DSII
terms, Aerospace or VTOLs in High mode), the player attempts an
intercept,
modified by their AS level to try a fighter attack on the opposing
aircraft.
For DSII, this could be a FMA opposed roll, and could represent in
abstract
the whole top level air defence umbrella (i.e. interceptors as well as
SAMs
and heavy AA lasers).

Rob

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