Re: [FT] AAR ESU vrs NAC

> --- Flynn Richardson <Flynn.Richardson@unilever.com>
> wrote:
> Questions Raised.
 
> 1) Do fighter have to fight back? i.e. could the NAC
> attack fighters
> ignored the ESU fighters as just gone for the ships
> regardless? 

If the attack fighters are being dogfighted away from an enemy ship,
they
could fly through, give up a free hit, and attack.

If the defensive fighters are engaged in an actual fighter screen, I
believe
the FB1 rules make it pretty clear that you have to match up a fighter
group
with each and every one of the screening fighter groups before you can
attack
the ship with any of them.  Thus, attack fighters could not ignore
screening
fighters in the same way that they could in a dogpile in open space.

Either way, if I'm going to fly attack fighters, I'm going to put some
dogfighters between them and any defensive fighters in an effort to
either
establish fighter superiority or at least blunt the enemy's.  Fighters
in
general are rather ineffective if they don't have superiority.

> 2) Do you have to designate all fighter attacks first?
> or can you wait
> until you see the effects of the previous squadron?

No.  I've always played it where you have to declare what fighters are
attacking which ships all at once, and roll from there.  Otherwise, you
could make the ship burn off all its point defenses on just one squad
at a time and then dogpile once all the defenses are used.  The fighter
screens have to be declared with ship movement (i.e. before attack
declarations), but the fighter intentions should all be resolved before
any rolls take place.

> Lessons learned:
> 
> Don't assume that the other guy wont take fighters! 

Yes, this is generally a bad tactical move in any game where you don't
know
in advance what your opponent is flying.
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