RE: excrutiatingly detailed fighter/missile interaction sequence

I hate to disagree, but p. 17 of the FT rules indicates
that fighters within range (6mu) of each other may fire
at each other and that they only enter a dogfight if 
they get in base to base contact. 

Think of it as firing missiles beyond visual range 
compared to getting into guns range. Once you are
in guns range, you have to do a lot more maneuvering
to put the enemy in your sights and keep him off your
tail.

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Brian Bell
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-----Original Message-----
From: Beth.Fulton@csiro.au [mailto:Beth.Fulton@csiro.au]
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 21:41
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: RE: excrutiatingly detailed fighter/missile interaction
sequence

[snip]

When you say act normally, do you mean dogfight/intercept missiles
coming
into attack the ship they are escorting? If yes then I'd agree. However,
we
do say that if they use their secondary move to get into a
dogfight/missile
intercept then they've broken away from the ship they were screening (as
they've moved more than 3" from the ship they are escorting) and can't
just
move with it next turn.
 
> Fighters attacking other fighters at long range attack before 
> dogfights start. (Or is this purely an initiative thing, 
> based on which fighter group is activated first?)

I'm sorry I don't quite understand what you mean here? For fighters to
attack fighters they have to dogfight (its just the name given to any
fighter vs fighter action) - you allocate who is fighting who and where
based on initiative, but there are no "long range attacks" per se.

[snip]

Cheers