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

On 13-Jun-01 at 23:47, Richard and Emily Bell (rlbell@sympatico.ca)
wrote:
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> 
> Roger Books wrote:
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> > On 13-Jun-01 at 14:52, David Griffin (carbon_dragon@yahoo.com)
wrote:
> >
> > > So what I'm saying is you can imagine anything
> > > you like for your fighters and no one can tell
> > > you it's not true as long as it doesn't provoke
> > > a rule change (I do that for other parts of my
> > > background). However, I just have a somewhat hard
> > > time believing that fighters are doing this kind
> > > of hard maneuvering AT weapon release time.
> >
> > So your auto-jink cuts off for 1/100th of a second
> > as the weapon is released.	No big deal.
> >
> 
> It does mean that at 1000 km per mu, fighters effectively stop dodging
> long enough to get fried at 3mu or less.

Then it will be fried without auto-jink.  Think about it, you can
auto-jink 99.99% of the time or never.

Actually, "my" fighters auto-jink _all_ of the time.  If I'm using
missiles they are held on with heavy duty magnetic grapples once
I start jinking.  When I turn off the grapples they fly away.
My beam weapons know what the jink is so they compensate.  As far
as whisker communications, all that info stays in the data stream
and the jink sequence uses chaotic formulas so you have to not
only know the formula you have to know initial settings and exactly
where in the progression you are right now.  Since all my fighters
know they can keep that whisker beam tight on target.

"PSB Are US" Roger