Re: Fighters and Hangers

Or 1 Mass per fighter plus half of that for the bay and launch 
facilities - round up. I'd also require that for normal operations each 
group have its own bay.

Jared Hilal wrote:

>--- Laserlight <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:
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>>Two parts to this -- variable size and protected system.
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>>For variable size, you could try Fighter Bay = 3 Mass + 1 Mass per 
>>fighter.  The base 3 mass could be construed as separate tracking and
>>control facilities, combat air traffic controllers, etc.  This is 
>>totally un-playtested, but at least it would discourage 
>>1-fighter-per-group cheese.
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>I meant variable size in terms of the ship designer chooses how many
>*groups* can be accommodated by the hanger and how many *groups* can be
>handled by the launch/recovery system in one turn.  I did not mean
>variable number of fighters per group.
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