Re: [FT] Mecha Fighter Rules

At 10:40 AM 7/7/99 +1000, Beth Fulton wrote:
>G'day,
>
>>Can we have specifics? 
>>How much more? Do you use
>>the standard boarding 
>>party rules, otherwise?
>
>They cost 30 (I think as I'm doing this from memory - I'll have to
check
>sorry).
>
>In all respects you consider them to be standard fighters (though we
are
>considering changing this so they have the same dogfight stats as an
attack
>fighter) except that they can perform boarding actions if so desired.
Note
>that they don't have to attack by baording, they can attack ships as
normal
>fighters do if you want - they do this with the stats of a normal
fighter.
>When the fighter attack is designated the player announces whether its
a
>normal fighter attack of a potential boarding action attack and then
>anti-fighter defense (PDS etc) is complete as usual. After the PDS etc
fire
>is complete, if the mechas are going to board, for every 3 mecha
fighters
>left in the attack (rounding if there are not staright multiples of 3
left)
>you get one offensive factor for the boarding action and then the
boarding
>action is played out as normal. Note, that if the mecha win the
boarding
>action they can't take over and man the ship, it just becomes a hulk.

I suppose if you bring along some assault shuttles you could take it
over
completely?

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