Re: [FT] Gunboats - points cost??

At 01:11 AM 2/19/99 -0500, you wrote:
[snip]
>Sounds very interesting.  I haven't had much experience with fighters
yet, so
>can't compair on that point.  But it does bring a question to mind...
>
>I take it, that the gunboats are smaller than the smallest possible
ship
using
>the FB rules?

Correct.

>Could a larger ship carry some into battle?  (IE battleriders, ect.)

Bullet point 2 :) - gunboats mass 3 each for hanger bay space
calculations.
 Since fighter/small craft/etc. bay space weighs 1.5 times the mass of
the
small craft carried, a single 4-group of gunboats (total mass 12) would
require an 18 mass hanger bay.

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