Re: Fighters

On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:40:07PM -0700, John Atkinson wrote:
>This discussion has massively tended in the direction
>of Harpoon-style rules covering massive complexity in
>fighters.  At which point you need a CAG with a
>complete staff to do your battleplanning (anyone here
>ever played Harpoon besides myself and Don??).

Yup. Extensively. And I see no reason to recreate it even though I enjoy
it.

I continue to maintain that space-fighters are going to be _nothing_
like atmosphere-fighters, for the simple reason that there isn't the
difference in media - an F-14 is going to be going at least ten times as
fast as a carrier, because it's in air rather than in water. Therefore
speed of strike isn't the reason that space-fighters exist.