RE:FT-Command & Control

bif smith wrote:

>Another idea for flag bridge is that it allows a ship to fire on a
enemy
>ship, using the targeting range from a closer frendly ship (die rolls),
as
>long as it`s within range of the target with it`s own guns in the first
>place (I know that someone suggested this before, but it seams a good
reason
>to have flag bridges).

The ships within a group certainly will pass sensor information amongst 
themselves, but how will this increase the effectiveness of their
weapons 
fire? A ship firing at a target from just within its extreme weapons
range, 
using sensor data handed off to it by a closer ship, will still face the

same problems of attenuation of its weapons fire.

The situation where this ability would help would be in game using
sensors 
and electronic warfare, ships able to 'see' a target can pass the
targeting 
data on to other ships (who for whatever reason can't 'see' the target)
who 
then use this information to generate their own fire control solution.
But 
sensors and EW are an optional extra and in the average game of Full
Thrust 
every ship on the table has an 'automatic' fire control solution on
every 
other ship.

Derek.
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