Re: [FT] Gunboats - points cost??

-MWS- wrote:

> 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.
>

Thanks.  (Duh....I must remember to push the memory modual in until it
clicks...)

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