Re: [FT]Random Musings

Roger Burton-West wrote:

> >This is reasonable IN THE "CANON" GZGVERSE ONLY.
>
>Granted, but so are the tech rating rules. If I wanted to fight
Renegade
>Legion battles, I'd be seriously considering re-calculating the points
>values anyway, from the point of view of tactical doctrine as well as
>pure mechanical effectiveness.
>
>I don't think it would be sensible even to try for a system which would
>both let me fight Renegade Legion battles _and_ bring those ships into
>the GZGVerse to fight the NAC.

I don't think the points values really need tweaking (at least I haven't

found any serious imbalances in my RL battles over the past year), but
you 
do need a limit on how many K-guns a ship can carry - ie., one <g>

However, considering the difference in scales - RL ships are even bigger

than HH ones - the NAC superdreadnoughts *might* qualify as light RL
patrol 
vessels; the smallest RL destroyers are more than 20 times larger...

>Given that a fighter group that's taken five losses can still be an
>effective screen, would it be reasonable to say that a group can be
>broken into "screening elements" (between 1 and 6 individual fighters)
>which must be engaged normally? A screen comprising smaller groups
would
>die faster but could hold off an attack while doing so.

I'd prefer to re-write the screening mechanism from scratch :-/

> >Keep in mind that the FT2 ADAF was pretty big - 3 Mass for a single
> >anti-fighter shot per turn. In FB terms this is equivalent to giving
each
> >ADFC the ability to direct ONE PDS in long-range mode - which is
something
> >quite different from Alan's giving a single ADFC the ability to
direct ANY
> >number of PDSs against ALL unengaged fighter/missile targets within
6". I
> >agree that something like this makes sense, but IMO this proposal
makes
> >ADFC *way* too powerful for its cost.
>
>Yes, fair enough; I'm certainly inclined to require individual ADFCs
per
>fighter group (or missile or whatever) target in exactly the same way
>that one requires normal FCs per ship target.

This sounds a lot more reasonable, yes :-)

Later,

Oerjan
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