[FT] 2 topics: Tournaments and back to fighters

I wrote:
>
>>--- Brian Bilderback <bbilderback@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Actually Binhan wrote that part.

*SNIP*

>>I don't really play many
>>tournaments because I really don't like them in
>>general.
>
>Same here, which is the reason for my above comment.

In his reply to my post, Binhan pointed out the shortcomings of my
one-shot 
fighter idea in tournaments.  While I see his point, I wonder if perhaps

it's more of a shortcoming in tournament formats that just happens to be

most nastily exploited by mass fighters.  It's been called "Paper Rock 
Scissors" by some on the list.	If I bring a fleet designed to take on
the 
greatest range of threats possible, someone who WAY overstacks in one
area 
has a good chance of thumping me.  If I bring a fleet designed
specifically 
to counter that stacked threat, a good all-around fleet should hand me
my 
keister  (And fighters do seem to be the most extreme example of this 
syndrome).  I wonder if maybe specific rules for tournament play, as
opposed 
to generic rules that work in campaigns or one-offs, might be a useful
set 
of optional rules.

Back to fighters.  I really do agree that Mr. Barclay has (not
surprisingly) 
come up with the most brilliant idea of all:  Offer a list of the most 
popular and preactical optional rules for fighters and anti-fighter 
defenses, and allow people to add them to their own play in layers to
best 
create the kind of fighter combat they want their background to have. 
The 
ideas for altering CFE, PDS/ADFC capability, and my one-shot rule could
be 
among those offered.

As for the PDS rule, has anyone thought about the suggestion I made
earlier 
today?	Instead of allowing PDS multiple attacks per turn, alter WHAT
they 
can attack.  I don't know how different from the suggestion to give
range to 
PDS it really is.  The tiered idea I had was:

A) Beam 1's can only fire on fighters directly attacking theie ship.
B) PDS May fire on attacking fighters OR any fighter passing within a
given 
range of said ship (somewhere in the 3-6" range).
C) ADFC May fire as per normal rules, since the PDS linked to the ADFC
would 
fall under subrule B.
D Scatterguns?	You got me, I haven't played the KV yet.

3B^2

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