Re: [GZG] Feedback on Beta Fighter Revisions

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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lOn 6/17/07, Hugh
Fisher <laranzu@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> In phase 8, any ship may target a fighter group subject to
> FCS availability, range, and weapon arcs. The player
> declares intent as usual, "3 beam-2 against the attack
> fighter group and 4 beam-1 against the other."
>
> BEFORE dice are rolled, the fighter group has the option
> to evade. (The player must decide in a reasonable time
> frame - no calculators allowed!)
>
> If the group evades, it expends 1 CEF and breaks off any
> attack run. The anti-ship weapon fire automatically misses.
> PSB: fighters have warning receivers that indicate a ship
> has locked on, and unlike bigger vessels they can actually
> move fast enough to break the lock. OR, anti-ship weapons
> have to be 'steered' onto the group, water-hose style, so
> the fighters can predict and avoid the fire.

The decision to evade should be made before the player owning the
fighters
finds out what is being fired.	Announcements should be made about which
fighter groups are under the eye of an FCS and then one player secretly
writes down whether the fighters are evading and the other player
secretlywrites down what, if any, weapons are firing (irrespective of
weapons committed, the FCS is 'used' for the purposes of fire.	After
orders
are written, both sets are revealed and resolved.

PSB:  The warning receivers will register the fire control signals, not
the
weapons fire.  As the FCS can handle the tracking for anything, the
pilot
has no idea what is inbound.  During the Cold War, illuminating an
adversary
with a tracking radar was a good way to 'rattle his cage', as there was
no
way to find out if a missile had not been fired.  A fighter that evades
has
no way of knowing the difference between being missed and not being
fired
at.  Fighters that do not evade will know, but the information will be
received too late to act upon it.

Also, not every pilot will actually listen to his threat receiver and
many
will even switch it off to prevent sensory overload.  In the Viet Nam
War,
sensory overload was such a problem that some F4 pilots went to the
extreme
of switching off the WSO's intercom.