Re: Confusion on Fighter costs

>You wrote:
>
> I >know that the basic fighter mass in FT (including the bay) is 3.
>
>Huh?  A 6-fighter bay is 6 Mass Points.  Back of the book.  If you're
>using some odd house rules, I think someone has rules out on a Website
>for 'bombers' which take up 8 mass points for a 4-ship squadron.  Other
>than that . . .
>
>John M. Atkinson

A single fighter is assumed to be MASS 1 or smaller. Under the FTII
construction system it requires 1 Mass of hangar space to
store/launch/maintain and rearm 1 fighter. In the FTIII system
introduced
in the FB, it now requires 1.5 Mass of space, but ships have a bit more
Mass to play with.

Jon (GZG)