RE: [FT] (LONG) The Balance of Power -- Fighters and a Defense

Actually, it was limiting the Salvo Missile Launchers (and 3 Missiles)
to
only be switched with Fighter Bays (and vice versa) that sparked the
idea. I
am very poor with salvo missiles, so I was thinking how I could ditch
them.
After talking it over with Carl, we decided to go the Fighter Swarm
route.
Why did we include the Markgraf/Ms? Carl convinced me that he was
proficient
with salvo missiles.

If it was an open swap on all weapons/bays/screens I probably would have
picked something more conservative.

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From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
[mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Laserlight
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 7:11 PM
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [FT] (LONG) The Balance of Power -- Fighters and a Defense

> > The hardest place to do this kind of comparison is in one-off
scnearios,
> > where the rock-paper-scissors effect penalizes - sometimes
severely - the
> > side that guesses wrong about the opposing force. Perhaps if the
Canadians
> > and Americans in Can-Am had both known from the design phase that
the
> > Americans used fighters, the Canadians would have fared better.

Jaime
> Or if they brought along someone like me (who wanted to go but lives
on
> the west coast and couldn't take the trip :( ) who carries around
fleet
> carriers and likes to use them. I'd prefer to play a modern designed
> fleet with a huge carrier, escorts and MT missile cruisers.

American team took about as many fighters as they possibly could,
within the design limitations
(www.angelfire.com/va/laserlight/CanAm_Rules.htm if I recall the
filename correctly).  If I'd let people design everything from
scratch, no doubt someone would have had a 10% hull and stuffed it
with fighter bays.

I'm thinking next year to have the battle take place within a red
supergiant (Mote in Gods Eye) or some other fighter-hostile
environment.