Re: PDS and fighters

>PDS serves two roles: To kill incoming attackers (secondary) and to
disrupt
>incoming attacks (primary). In the real world, this might consist of
>destroying incoming missiles and putting lead in the area of an
incoming
>fighter/bomber to convince the pilot he'd best break off the attack
>(leading to an ineffective attack).
>
>So, why not treat PDS as a ship-wide system similar to shields that
serves
>to disrupt all incoming attacks? (versus as a bunch of seperate systems
>that have to be allocated to targets like DF weapons)

Yes, that's how I chose to redesign point defence:

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~laranzu/fullthrust/rules/newPointDefence.
pdf

	cheers,
	Hugh