Re: FT-Fighters and launch bays

One of the major list battles that was never fully resolved. Some argued
your design, others stated that the fighters would have to be uncrated,
and
unavailable during the relatively short periord of a battle.

We all ended up muttering about agreeing to disagree, though I think
there
was agreement that it could be unbalancing.

Have you checked out the archives?

The_Beast

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I was thinking of my post about deployed SMR pods, and I came up with
this
idea for fighters. The fighter bays can be considered as the launch bays
(after all, a ship can launch all it`s fighters at once), we could have
the
fighters carried as cargo in cargo bays, with the fighter bays use for
just
launching/landing/rearming fighters, and the fighters transfered from
the
cargo bays to the launch bays when launching is required. After all, I
don`t
think a present carrier can launch all it`s fighters at once, it
requires
them to be transfered from the hangers to the catapults. If we did this,
a
CVL could replace 2 of it`s launch bays with cargo space for 3 fighter
groups, increasing it`s fighters to 5 groups, but only be able to
launch/land/rearm 2 fighter groups at once.

Any comments?

BIF

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