Fighters [FT] and Decoys [DS]

1. Fighters:
You can't even really do a non-linear point 
system for fighters for two reasons: It is a fleet 
wide thing, but also I'm sure it is really "fighter 
advantage" not "fighter count" that makes the 
difference. If you bring 101 fighters and he 
brings 102, odds say the battle is fairly even. If 
he brings 140, you're ass is grass. Also, if Jon T 
has playtesters and convention goers who 
complain about calculating range dice in FMA 
style systems, non-linear math is so far out that 
it isn't funny. Also, add to which the thought 
that we aren't likely to see all the designs 
reissued, so figure that we're unlikely to see 
new systems requiring an SSD box. 

2. Decoys
Oerjan, Beth.... thanks for the feedback. Allow 
me to take a contrary opinion. Oerjan maintains 
decoys are beneath the DS2 granularity, I say 
not. Why? They are NOT beneath the SG2 
granularity, and SG2 has ECM and Decoys. And 
in SG, what happens? Units fire at a single 
target vehicle. In DS, fire from units is resolved 
element to element, so the situation is (IMO) 
analogous. Now, if you toss out decoys for DS, 
I'd say do the same for SG. I'd like to see the 
situation homogenous, but I don't really care 
which way. 

3. Rules for homogenizing DS/SG 
I had some of these posted on my old website 
before it went "kablowie". I have them, plus 
some new ones, to get done up along with 3.4 
billion other ideas and user submissions, for 
stargunt.ca. I'll never get all caught up, but I've 
registered the domain for another few years, so 
that one day I'll get up to where I should be 
today..... (and I'll post notices when new 
content appears like this that I know people 
want to hear about). 

Thomas. 
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Thomas Barclay
Co-Creator of http://www.stargrunt.ca 
Stargrunt II and Dirtside II game site

No Battle Plan Survives Contact With Dice.
-- Mark 'Indy' Kochte