Re: [FT AAR] New Israel/Islamic Federation

>> By now I've seen adjustments from +10%-
>> 25% for converting non-FTL ships to FTL equivalent, evening things up
a 
>> tad (1320-1500).

+10-15% should be close.

That makes it less balanced than I would have liked, and the NI victory
more
marginal. In terms of total NPV in that case, the scenario weally was a
wash.

>> In addition, 144 NPV of the NI ships were 8 unarmed, unmanned scouts
>> (the other 5 had a single submunition packs) - utterly useless
against 
>> anything but SMs. 

> Which, as you probably knew prior to the battle <g>, is one of the
IF's
> main weapons. Defences specifically tailored against your enemy must
> IMO be counted into the force total :-/

I guessed. Laserlight's IF fleet has quite the variety, but I suspected
and
hoped he'd lean toward SMs. Certainly the scouts should be counted.

> Yep. But that depends entirely on the scenario set-up - ie, whether or
> not the HK group is close enough to intervene effectively. In this
> battle they were.

Lesson for any raid scenario setup. Time to intercept is crucial to both
sides and can determine whether the main objective of either opponenet
is
achievable.

Noam