RE: [FT] Should all Beams fire at fighters/ordinance?

On Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:09 AM, Richard and Emily Bell
[SMTP:rlbell@sympatico.ca] wrote:
> On the plus side, the amount of slew required is inversely
proportional
> to the range, so if we assumed the targetting systems are up to the
> task, all classes of beams could be allowed to fire at fighters in the
> range band where they only roll one die, but not at closer ranges. 
The
> larger beams are useless for point defense, but they can reach out and
> touch somebody.

When I did my HH conversion, I had to include rules for this.  I had all
weapons rolling 1 die using "C-1 as PDS" rules within their normal arc,
as I
deleted the missile lock roll for SMLs (so they needed the extra
defence).

Hmm... time to revisit those rules I think. 

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