RE: Re: Fighters

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> [mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf
> Of John Atkinson
> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 11:31 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: RE: Re: Fighters
>
>SNIP<
>
> Depends on how many you show up with.
>
> I dropped the fighter squadrons from my SDNs because
> they are pretty pointless in the 1-2 squadron strength
> shown.  Now, if you show up with 20-30 squadrons, then
> it'll be overwhelming.
>
> Once.
>
> You'll take some serious casualties, in the order of
> 50-60% if your opponent has even a reasonable number
> of PDS/ADFC.
>
>SNIP<
>
> The perception of fighter strength is based off of
> one-off combats between ships where both sides fight
> to the death with all their ships.  No context, no
> morale, no nothing.
>
> John
>
Exactly...in a campaign game fighters end up being more costly
in terms of logistics and an easily dealt with annoyance if
fielded in groups of 2-3. They may project power and be
overwhelming for one battle but when you have to split your
force to defend multiple fronts you soon find carrier-based
forces get whittled down or circumvented easily.

One of our regular carrier mini-maxers in one-off battles got
creamed in our campaign game for just that reason :)

Rgds,

Alfie