Re: Super-Duper Sensor System

At 4:34 PM +0100 6/26/01, Michael Robert Blair wrote:
>It would be easy to put a ships signature value on its
>SDD.

Aye. Extend FMA into it. FMA is Great!

>Would a ships signature increase as it took damage? So
>at the end of the damage rows there might be a series
>of different signature values.

Drop the die type for every thresh hold? If you are already at D4, 
then go up a die type on the sensor players die?

>Missiles would not attack the closest ship but instead
>the largest signature within range - so sacrificial
>escorts would need a 'blip enhance' system like the
>Falklands helios.

Weasel boats!

>
>This also suggest a series of sneaky manoeuvres -
>artificially boosting a ships signature to fool an
>enemy - like a submarine releasing oil and debris.
>Amusing but better suited to a novel or RPG rather
>than FT.

Weasel boats and dummy bogeys. A cluster of frigates and bogeys 
coming in on one side a system to spoof the system defenders to the 
other side while the real task force comes in to pulverize the ship 
yard and staging areas....

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