RE: The Fighter Debate

Randall mentioned fighters being relegated to "vulture" patrol but I
sort of
like the idea.	Of course I also base my concepts on Star Wars, I like
to
see big capitol ships and small fighters all in one big mix, but it
makes it
interesting to think that the fighters are sort of hanging around
picking on
each other until someone gets separated from the herd!

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Robert Blair [mailto:pellinoire@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:55 AM
To: gzg-l@scotch.csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: The Fighter Debate

Ban fighters. This would solve a lot of problems but
make a lot of people very unhappy. It depends in part
on what your inspiration is. Mine is largely WW I and
earlier to I have no problems with it but if your
model is Star Wars then you are not going to be a
happy camper.

Making shields more effective against fighter weapons.
I love this idea. The fighters have to wait until
something (strike fighters?) can knock the shields
down.  We should see a division between space
superiority fighters and strike fighters, the former
are all but useless against ships while the latter are
dogmeat in a dogfight.

Developing from this what about increasing the
specialisation of fighters? You can have a dogfighter
or a strike fighter but not one that can do both. The
Strike fighters can be limited in the number of
attacks they can make - one or two at most then they
have to return to the CV and rearm.

The idea mutates again. Limit fighters to one attack
against ships but otherwise keep the rules as they
are.

The latter two ideas are moving towards the WW II
model which is probably the best one to use.

Michael

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