Re: RFACS

Here's another thought concerning the high fire rates of RFAC's and
small 
MDC's, and Idea I proposed while chatting with Andrew Martin.  He had
some 
valid (though not necessarily concrete) objections to it, but I'll still

throw it out to the wolves...

Currently, air attacks include missile attacks, DFO runs, and direct
fire 
versus a single target.  Why not allow fighters to use RFAC's and light 
MDC's to make strafing runs? Here's how I suggest it be done:

Each strafing run has a beaten zone shaped like a single line, 1 inch
long 
per class of weapon. Everything on that line gets hit, but because of
the 
dispersal of the fire over such a long line, only green chits are valid.

Brian Bilderback

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis
is 
of no use."

				 - S. Freud

----Original Message Follows----
From: Brian Quirt <baqrt@mta.ca>
Reply-To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: RFACS
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:22:21 -0400

Brian Bilderback wrote:
 > I have to agree with good Mr. Barclay on this one.  Making RFAC's and

small
 > MDC's more effective vs PBI's while retaining their usefulness vs. 
vehicles
 > seems like a step forward, not a step back.

Agreed. In fact, I was recently flipping through my SGII rulebook, when
I came across an interesting note. In the sample ESU force given in the
rulebook (p. 69), it mentions the "VK20 Assault Cannon (20mm)" as an
"RFAC/1 for PA suits." The VK20 is given a FIREPOWER of D10 and Impact
of D12. The use of FP instead of Firecontrol implies that it might be
usable as an anti-infantry weapon, and FPD10/Impact D12 is certainly
more than the "standard" values which have been quoted so far. Of
course, it may be just a typo (not that there are any typos in GZG
rulebooks...) but it also might mean that the RFAC/1 (and similar) are
more effective against infantry than implied in the Heavy Weapons
section of the rulebook.

I would certainly be willing to just go with that example and give the
RFAC/1 D10/D12 vs. infantry- at least if it seems reasonable to everyone

else....

-Brian Quirt

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