Re: FB2 Status???

Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
> There were a flurry of changes fairly late, but IIRC the last big
> changes were about three weeks ago.

Figures!  I missed a lot I guess. :-(
  
> I suspect it has more to do with the scattergun mechanics used. They
> now have inherent ADFC ability which makes a huge difference,
> particularly if you use the 3mu target acquisition radius for SMs in
> Vector (which I think you should, considering the FB2 modifications to
> the vector system in general).
> 
> Also, one of the scattergun versions had them fire 3 PDS dice instead
> of killing 1d6 missiles/fighters (and no inherent ADFC) - if you used
> that one, your results make perfect sense!

We did use the 1D6 kills for fighters/missiles.  It seemed very 
effective especially with larger ships having quite a nice supply of 
the scatter packs.  It took a couple waves of salvos to get through 
the malestrom.	Fighters were shredded rather quickly.

> >Weird.  We found the NAC to be OK, but not great.  The NSL were 
> >the least effective and got hurt big time with limited damage 
> >potential from beam only ships.  The FSE faired the best with swarms 
> >of missile salvos devastating the Kra'Vaks ships.
> 
> Weird is the word, yes... with the final (published) KV rules it takes
> on average 4 SM salvoes on target to kill a KV DH (TMF 40), or 6
> salvoes to kill a KV CL (TMF 60)... "devastating" looks a bit too
> strong a word :-/

Sounds about right from experience.  It was devastating for the KV 
player who earlier took out NSL ships with ease.

> I'd be very interested in seeing more detailed battle reports from
> these tests - if nothing else to try and figure out why they differ so
> much from my results!

I'll try to put something together from the SSDs.

Mike