Re: FT-Torpedo fighters

----- Original Message -----
From: Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: FT-Torpedo fighters

>
> What about making the long-range fighter missiles inflict 1D6-4 points
per
> fighter instead?

Works for me. After all, I was after a "death by a thousand paper cuts"
weapon for use in my starfire senarios (well, the grand bug stomp
anyway).

> Average damage per fighter is 0.5 pts, so an average
> undamaged cruiser would take very little damage from a lone fighter
> squadron; a solid ADFC phalanx would be very difficult to crack even
for
> massed missile fighters. (Which, BTW, is exactly what happens in
Starfire
> :-) ) If the fighters have unlimited time at their disposal they'll
still
> be able to take out any fighter-less non-SV enemy without taking any
losses
> themselves, but it'd be a slow death of a thousand cuts rather than a
> single massive blow - and the enemy would have plenty of time to
withdraw
> if he can't break through to the carriers while the fighters are
reloading.
>
> BIF again:
>
> >If you are going to say about differentiating between
> >different loadouts on the torpedo fighters, you can always use the
sistem
we
> >do, and have 1 model per fighter, with a number on said fighter, and
a
> >record sheet to tally the number of losses/missiles fired/missile
loadout
> >etc.
>
> Allowing different fighters in a single squadron to have different
weapon
> loads is a *pain*. I wouldn't allow that, no.
>

No, what I meant was that every fighter in the squadrem would have the
same
loadout, but to know how many missiles are left (for the light missiles)
or
which missile loadout the squadrem is flying, note it down on a piece of
paper, that also has the number of fighters left in the squadren on it,
so
letting you use only 1 fighter model per squadren. (hope the above is
more
clear)

> Oerjan
> oerjan.ohlson@telia.com
>
> "Life is like a sewer.
>   What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
> -Hen3ry
>
>