Re: Carrier status

>>As I have done some thinking, I expanded this idea - I'm sure I nicked
the
>>ideas of others, as well, but it seems to me that there are 4 useful
>>'control' systems - all the same mass, capabilities and (perhaps)
cost. -
>>
>>1) FireCon - the standard we all know and love
>>
>>2) FlightCon - Any ship with fighters (or landing craft) may launch
>>    OR recover 1 group per turn (and I would have restrictions on
>>    the carrier's allowed actions that turn - only half-thrust or
>>    something like that). With FlightCon you have no carrier move
>>    restrictions and 2 simultaneous activities. Each additional
>>    FlightCon provides 2 more simultaneous activities (maybe only 1)
>>    So really big carriers can do a lot at once (by sacrificing
>>    mass for FlightCon)
>>     <Brian's rules were a bit different - each Launch control
>>	allowed 1 extra launch per turn, and a ship could land half
>>	that many (round down) - I don't distinguish which activties
>>	can be performed, only how many>

Well, this was something we have been doing with FTII at my local club
for
quite a while now.  Instead of having just Fire Cons, we also had Launch
Cons which would allow a ship to launch 2 groups or recover 1 group
every
turn for each Launch Con they had (ships with no Launch Cons could
launch 1
group per turn or recover 1 group every two turns).  The basic Fire Cons
on
a ship could be swapped for Launch Cons for free and extras could be
bought
in exactly the same way as Fire Cons.  This way it was easy to create a
dedicated carrier that relied on its fighters to fight or ones with only
minimal combat capability (my personal favourite carrier had 3 Launch
Cons,
an ADAF and a PDAF, three screens and 6 fighter groups for about 98
Mass.
Love that ship).

Its quick and simple and pretty realistic.  And the best bit is it
works.

-Kelvin....

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