Re: [FT] Fighter Balance (was: FT-Number crunching required)

From: "Bell, Brian K (Contractor)" <Brian.Bell@dscc.dla.mil>

> How would you read the situation? How many fighter groups are too weak
to
be
> of value. How many are too many as to be overpowering if the other
side
does
> not have any?

Even a few fighter groups are useful on the defence.
As for overwhelming - as long as you have at least 2/3 of the
opposition's
fighters, you should be OK. Less, and you will get creamed in the
Fighter to Fighter combats. But if you can just  delay his fighters
so they don't come in at the same time as the incoming missiles, and
you have a reasonable defence net (and you're using fighter morale) then
you should be OK.

I don't find the FB1 designs too low on PDS. But that's because I
include at least 1 specialised ADAF ship per  2 capitals or 3 cruisers.
I mainly play ESU or NSL, if I was using NAC Furious, I'd up the
proportion accordingly, and if using FSE I'd have a larger proportion
of fighters.

In a 3000 pt battle, you should be able to put up at least 20 PDS
protecting any one vessel in the defence grid - at least 2 PDS
per fighter group attacking. They'll get in one good blow, but it'll
hurt
em - and if they don't go for the ADAF ships first, they'll get
massacred.

I consider 2 Beijing-Es to be a reasonable escort for a single Komarov.