Re: Fighters and Hangers

Jared Hilal wrote:

>Whatever Mr. Tuffley has written on this list or the test list, or said
>in person, what he published is:
>
>Fleet Book 1, pg 8, under "TUGS AND TENDERS"
>"...at the same rate as for carrying fighters and other small craft -
>ie: every 1.5 MASS used for hanger bay space provides capacity for 1
>MASS of carried ship(s).  Note that this allows for support and
>launching facilities, and is thus differntfrom plain cargo space."
>
>and
>
>Fleet Book 2, Kra'Vak section, page 10, "HANGER BAYS"
>"Each Fighter Bay uses 9 MASS and costs 18 points [corrected to 27], to
>carry up to 6 MASS of fighters, ie: one group; bays for other small
>craft use 1.5 x the MASS of craft carried..."
>
>So this shows an intention, at least up to the publishing of FB2, that
>fighters are 1 MASS each.  If this has changed, then a two sentence
>paragraph in FB3 will take care of the question.  Until that time,
>however...

...I suggest that you read this post:

http://lists.firedrake.org/gzg/200007/msg00034.html

which was posted to this list in July 2000, ie. after FB2 was published,

and therefore supercedes it. Specifically,

"For the record, a fighter is less than 1 mass (probably much less), but

needs 1.5 mass of bay and support stuff."

Jon hasn't said anything more on this subject since then, so this is
what 
we have to work with.

***
If you want large ships vs small fighters, the two easiest options are
to 
play with actual large ship designs and to say that each fighter group 
actually represents more than 6 fighters even though the group as a
whole 
has 6 "hit points".

Regards,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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