RE: FT: Carriers & Fighter Capacity

Also, 6 fighter groups on a ship is not much of a limit.
Almost all FB ships would have a problem defending against 
6 fighter groups (big KV may be an exception).

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Brian Bell
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Bilderback [mailto:bbilderback@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 13:40
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
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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