Re: FT-Banzai jammers

In message <001501c0aa49$c0843c00$4bee1a3f@pavilion>
	  "Laserlight" <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> > I was thinking of the banzai jammers as stated by Oerjan as being a
> useful
> > ships to use if your enemy is coming in with SML`s, using them to
> trick them
> > to go after the banzai`s and not your ship. I had a thought about a
> > different kind of jammer, one that does away with FTL and is
> launched from a
> > internal hanger bay instead. If we assume that the decoy is mass 2,
> making
> > the launch bay mass 3, would it be cost effective to use mass 3
> hyper
> > capable decoys, or the mass 2 internally launched decoys?
> 
> My Islamic Fed BB's use 1 mass for FTL-tow, which gives a tow capacity
> of 7 mass.  I use it for 2 jammers at 3 mass each (1mass Thrust, 1
> hull box, 1 point armor)
>
Hmm.. if you swap the 1 armour for 1 PDS, they get a slim chance of
surviving the missiles they attract (well, I guess 'better than nothing'
is better than... nothing :-) - they can also be used as rather puny
gunboats using the PDS in anti-ship mode.

Charles