Well, if there were two major categories of things that would draw point

defense, we made them allocate in blocks as to how much got used against

plasma, how much against missiles, and how much against fighters.  Any
point 
defense you fired at fighter attacks blew away an equal proportion of
each 
different sort of fighters, with the idea that they were assumed to have

good enough electronics that you couldn't easily tell who was equipped
with 
torpedoes and who wasn't.

We also never would have had multiple "half squadrons" in our games,
these 
got recombined.  Fighter morale would've required too much bookkeeping
(and 
our PBS usually held that the interstellar powers that used fighters in
any 
numbers would usually use automated or lobotomized pilots of some sort
that 
didn't care whether they survived or not).

In the actual games, missile-fighter combinations never actually came
up.  I 
was quite fond of combining plasma with fighters, because the area
defense 
phalanxes that were most effective against fighters were natural targets
for 
concentrated plasma.  Missiles and fighters didn't really strike me as 
something where you got enough of a return on your investment to be
worth 
combining instead of using just one or the other, so I never used them 
together.  A combined plasma-and-fighter offense with beams for a modest

secondary offense to keep people honest on ship-to-ship engagements and 
scatterguns to keep them honest on fighters were pretty much the optimal

strategy in our games.	(Yes, we mixed tech among the non-SV freely.)

E

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <laserlight@verizon.net>
To: <gzg-l@lists.csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [GZG] Re:  Full Thrust Playtest? Plama bolts

> >This is true, we rolled everything over in PDS and fighter fire
against 
> >other fighters, missiles, and plasma, if I recall correctly.
>
> If you didn't allocate PDS, how did you do it? Let's say you have 3 
> cruisers with 6PDS each, defending against 5 missiles, 2 torpedo
fighter 
> squadrons, 2 intact standard fighter squadrons s and 2 half-squadrons
of 
> standard fighters.
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