Re: "offical" (fleet book) ship designs

Ummm, that's the way it works.	One firecon allows you to fire at one
target with some or all weapons; two firecons allow you to split your
fire between two targets or fire all at one, so on and so forth.  In
other words, fire controls have NO effect on the number of weapons you
can fire; they only affect the number of TARGETS you can shoot at.

Mark

"Chris !!!" wrote:

> I have been playing Full Thrust for a couple years now (or at least
> using the basic system)But, I never paid much attention to the ships
> in the books.I finally purchased the Fleet book and have recently
> played a few games using FT "offical" minis and ships stats. (NSL
> ships) I have one serious comment / concern:	      Why would a nation
> build a ship with 5 different weapon systems with only 1 fire
> control?I could understand 2 (or maybe 3 in an extreem case) weapons
> to use as back up systems for when weapons are knocked out, but 5
> (Kronprinz light cruiser)?In my experience a ship will be completely
> distroyed long before it looses all of it's weapon systems.  Is this
> just to show poor German design <ha> ? or... i dunno any insite?  Has
> anyone thought about allowing all weapons to fire every turn, and
> using fire control as the number of different ships that can be
> targeted.  example:  5 batteries + 2 fire controls = 5 batteries on 1
> target, or 3 on one 2 on another, etc... (assuming the target is in
> the proper firing arcs) Thanks in advance + my $0.02 Christopher