Re: Targeting Missiles

	The mates that I play FT with really don't have a problem with
batteries
not be able to shoot missiles which we all assumed were about the same
size
as a fighter. What we did do is allow ADAF's and PDAF's to attack any
target within their range. This allowed ships within 6" of each other
the
overlock their PDAF fire (like ADAF's in FT) and support each other as
well
as shoot missiles that zipped past them toward another ship, (makes the
PDAF's on your destroyer screen real useful).
	The side effect has been that this has rendered fighters almost
totally
inefective against capitals and tight flotillas. To give the fighters
something back we came up with (but have not tried):
	Wild Weasel Fighters
	+12 points per group
	Dogfighting hit on 6 only
	May attack ships from 9"
	Each hit is against an ADAF or PDAF directly.
	Each hit causes and ADAF or PDAF (one for each hit) to take a
threshold
test failing on 4,5,6
	No other damage done to target ship.

	Just a couple of ideas.
	
	Tony.
	twilko@ozemail.com.au 

At 13:32 23/04/98 -0600, you wrote:
>
> Just a philosophical thought here that some players might not like but
I'll 
> say it anyway to see what the rest of you think (no flames please, its
just a 
> question I have everytime the missile swarm subject comes up):
> 
> Why can't a ship's main weapons (beam batteries mainly) target and
fire at 
> missiles?  Sure they are small but an A-batt can fire on a mass 2
system 
> defense ship that would be only slightly larger.  Missiles have a max
speed 
> that is easily beaten by other ships plus missiles can't manuver
(turn) as 
> well as a normal ship.  Fighters must be less than mass one so there
is a 
> good reason why they can't be hit but I can make a ship the size of a
missile 
> and I can shoot at the ship but not the missle so what is the
difference?
> 
> A likely answer is that the missile has some stealth or jamming built
in so 
> it is harder to hit but is that good enough?
> 
> Also I like the idea of allowing ECM from the underused enhanced and
superior 
> sensor systems to make missiles miss their target.
> 
> Dean
> dean.gundberg@bcbsnd.com
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