Re: FT: Carriers & Fighter Capacity
From: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@h...>
Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 10:40:24 -0700
Subject: Re: FT: Carriers & Fighter Capacity
>From: Flak Magnet <flakmagnet@tabletop-battlezone.com>
> Bow and Aft arcs (aft actually being a non-firing arc, really) could
>have a lower number of possible attacking fighter, not so much due to
an
>assumption that ships will generally be linear in shape, but because
the
>forward motion of the ship along the fore-aft axis would limit the
>effective attack vectors. If it wouldn't make it "too complicated",
the
>bow should have even fewer than the stern, because of the assumption
>that fighters can't fire through an aft arc just like the big ships,
and
>to maneuver to keep getting a good head-on attack vector you have to
>turn away from the target sometime...
Whoops, just realized one problem with that line of reasoning: In
vector,
the axis of the bow and aft arcs is not necessarily parallel or equal to
the
line of movement.....
3B^2
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