Re: Missiles, Plasme bolts and other fun stuff

[Plasma/missiles/fighters question]

I'd say that all three would just attack the ship in the order that they
normally do so without mutual interference.  Fighters simply have short
range beams, so they don't need to move right up to the ship they're
attacking,
and I suppose you could consider missiles to either have a "directed
explosion"
or the warheads just don't zone in on a ship until the last second.

We don't use fighter morale at all, so I'll skip that one...
 
> Loading and relaunching of fighters a few questions:
> 1 What must the carrier do (or rather what CAN'T the carrier do while
it
> does this) ?

No course changes or accel/deceleration.

> 2 How long time does it take ?

One turn, the fighter group comes out (if it becomes a nitpicky
question) in
the middle of the ship's movement path.

> 3 Can you join 2 fighter groups of 3 fighters to one squadron of 6 f.
inst.
> ?

Decide a house rule.  We allow it at basically any time, whether the
groups
are in a fighter bay or not.  If there's six straggling fighters, we
tend
to pretty much automatically collect them back into a single group.  We
consider the six-fighters-per-group norm to be just a convenience to
tell us
how many markers to stick on the field and little more.

> 4 Does this (question 3) affect time of operation and when does it
happen
> exactly (important for threshold rolls against bays on carriers
loading and
> launching) ?

Decide a house rule again.  If there's straggling fighters we usually
consider
them to just have collected into a single group before they land in the
first
place and so they all just use one fighter bay.

> 5 Can a fighter move the round it is launched ?

House rule.  We allow it.

> 6 Can you join two fighter groups of different type ?

Interesting... this one's never come up because we don't like to have to
keep track of "mongrel groups".  I'd tend to say no.
 
I don't know what the official consensus is on any of this.
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