RE: FT Newtonian Acceleration was Re: B5 Ship Combat

On Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:09 AM, Jared Hilal
[SMTP:jlhilal@yahoo.com] wrote:
>  Since fighters are the smallest item in the game, they put a scaler
on 
> everything else.  In backgrounds where the capital ships are much
larger 
> than fighters (like B5, SW, BSG or BFG), the size of a fighter group 
> forces the size of the ship to be enlarged by quite a bit (it's really

> difficult to get 12 TIE groups on an ISD).

As FT is abstract anyway, I usually abstract out the fighters to fit the
capital ship scale.
In SW, 12 fighters = 1 FT squadron; which gives 6 squadrons on an ISD (1
interceptor, 3 TIE/In, 2 Bomber)

Brendan 
'Neath Southern Skies

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