RE: [FT] Crew quality house rules

Still maintains my premise:
The missiles weren't ready to fire when required (maintainance) and the
Israelis charged under the effective range of the enemies weapons
(initiative).  You could probably call having ECM a form of Damage
Control
(no hits mean no damage to fix).

Brendan
'Neath Southern Skies

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugh Fisher [mailto:laranzu@ozemail.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:31 PM
>
> Brendan wrote:
> >Most of those examples relate to Damage Control (for which 
> automation can't
> >yet make a "leap of faith" to fix a problem).
> >
> >In the automation of FT, crew quality doesn't matter once 
> the targetting
> >solution is locked into the computers.  Where it does matter 
> is in the
> >maintainance of the systems, damage control and initiative.
> 
> I've read that in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war crew quality
> made a big difference in combat between missile boats.
> The Arab/Syrian missiles needed several minutes warm up
> time for their internal gyros. The Israelis correctly
> guessed that a badly trained crew would fire as soon as
> they got a missile lock. Their boats charged in quickly,
> the enemy boats fired, the missiles crashed into the
> water. This also shows the advantage of well trained
> crews: it must take a lot of confidence in your officers
> and intelligence to deliberately let the enemy shoot
> first.
> 
> The Isralie boats also had ECM for the missiles which
> did fly straight, but again this relied on the operators
> staying at their consoles as the missile came in.
> 
>	Hugh

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