Re: FT: Very new to this

This brings up a subject I've been trying to broach with several FT/DS 
webpage owners, a subject which has netted me disappointing responses -
not 
that these individuals were less than helpful, just that what they told
me, 
in all it's stark accuracy, was a let-down.

I had hoped that if I were to go buy FT, it would help me coordinate the
air 
war above my DS II battlefield. Apparently this is not the case.

There are several good sets of house rules for air combat in DS II that
I've 
seen, but as one individual pointed out to me, this would detract from
the 
ground war aspect of DS II.  So I came up with a pretty simple idea. 
This 
is for DS II'ers, not for FT. Here's what I came up with:

Don't mess with air combat.  Instead, if both sides agree on it, use the

rules for calling in artillery to also call in airstrikes. Your
artillery 
spotters wear second hats as FAC's, and when you do manage to call in a 
strike, this represents the ground support craft that managed to get
through 
all that nasty stuff going on up in the Air Superiority regions. Both
sides 
should agree on the intensity of the air war going on, this equates to
the 
roll required to call in air strikes.

Brian Bilderback

"People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men
stand 
ready to do violence on their behalf."

					      - George Orwell
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