RE: [ft] Fighter Momentum Conservation (was: [OT]Unpredictable AI)

 
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One of the nice things about FT is you can do what you want. So if
that is the way you and your friends like to play, do so!

The only thing that I caution you about is that writing orders takes
much more time than just moving a fighter group 24mu. 

On dogfights, if you are writing orders for fighters, then both
players would need to write orders to place the fighters where they
could dogfight. Why would they loose thier momentum just because
another fighter is near?

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From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
[mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Donald
Hosford
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 03:26
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [ft] Fighter Momentum Conservation (was:
[OT]Unpredictable
AI)

Here are some quick thoughts on these questions.

Just treating each squadron as a ship seems simple to me...how do you
handle
haveing 28 ships on the table then?  Whats a few more?	The data
sheet for a
squadron seems much simpler than the simplest ship's data sheet
anyway.

Dogfights -- one turn only...that is if neither side wishes to match
direction/velocity with the other, or stop.  If one wishes to, then
the
dogfight continues.  If both wish to, they both stop right there and
continue
the dogfight.

Fighters attacking ships -- The fighters get to attack a ship, if,
(1) it is in
range of the squadrons weapons, and (2) it is in the squadron's fire
arc (if
important).  Then make your normal attack rolls, ect.

(I never understood why fighters needed their own move segment, their
own
attack segment, their own move system, ect.  Seems much simpler to
treat them
as very small ships -- Which is what they are anyway.)

Donald Hosford

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