RE: RE: [FT] Updated MT Missiles question

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From: laserlight@quixnet.net [mailto:laserlight@quixnet.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 11:26
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: RE: RE: [FT] Updated MT Missiles question

>From: Bell, Brian K (Contractor)
>Here is the version I like:
>3) Limited life of 6 game turns.

Quite a long time.

[Bri] In MT, missiles had an endurance of 3, and so did fighters. Since
fighters were extended, missiles should be also.

>7) Each MT missile that causes damage is treated as a PDS attack
against
all
other MT missiles that are attacking the same ship this turn due to
fratricide. (This is to reduce swarm attacks with MT missiles.)

doesn't make sense that MTM suffer this but SMR don't.	And I'd say
you're
somewhat less likely to overload defenses with MTM than with
SMR--defender
only has to get one kill/salvo instead of up to six.

[Bri] You are _more_ likely to be overwhelmed by MTM. This is due to:
1. You can fire all of them at once.
2. Each _missile_ is targeted by PDS seperatly.
This was one of the reasons MTM were overpowered in MT. You could get
dozens
of small ships and fire MTM at long range then scoot. The dozens of MTM
would far outnumber the number of PDS available to the target ship(s).
Thus
something needs to be done to reduce the number of effective missiles or
the
problem will repeat. SMLs & SMRs are limiting by the increased mass to
damage ratio. 

>8) MT Missiles always are fired out of the Forward arc.

Unneccesary restriction.  I can see "must specify firing arcs when
purchased" and limiting it to 120 or 180 degrees, but there's no reason
it
has to be F arc only, is there?