Re: Soap bubbles?

Guess you missed my summation a few days ago...

While the representational attack may correct the problems, I feel that
it would
also strip many of the positive and interesting tactical possibilities
that
fighters bring to the board.

The biggest problem (at least that everyone can agree on) involves the
non-linear combat effect that fighters have.  1-2 is almost meaningless,
where
10+ completely dominate.  Effectively, the combat power (measured in
points in
FT) gives 18 for a fighter squad, but 10 groups of fighters does not
equal 180.
More on the effect of 180^2 (not really, but it is much larger than 180
points
of stuff).

Soap bubbles are a different problem set in thier own right, but rely
heavily on
the above and then adding thier own particular stink.  It's hoped that
any
change to fighters or thier rules would help curtail soap bubble
carriers (okay,
I shouldn't talk for an entire group...  It is my, and I beleive most on
the
list's hope).  The main grief on soap bubbles are that they abuse the
design
system to carry the most fighters possible, thus compounding the above. 
It's
also extremely frustrating to play against...  In effect very similar to
beating
one's head against a wall.  It only feels good when you stop.

Rand.

"Bradley, Jason (US - Minneapolis)" wrote:

> Being new to FT, and not having really seen the rules as of yet, may I
ask
> how fighters work in FT?
> The only game where fighters were an issue that I have played was BFG
and
> there seemed to be some similar issues to what you guys are talking
about,
> minus the soap bubble thing.	We fixed that by switching fighters from
> actual minis you moved around the table to a representative fighter
"attack"
> that was used much like any other weapon in the game with a range,
damage
> etc..
>
> Jason
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