Re: attack craft

Harry Bandoian wrote:
>
> To bring up old subjects, I just thought that FIGHTERS!!! Yes fighters
> (that horrid word) would work if the fighters are limited to anti-personal
> craft with a minimal (or non-existant) anti-capital ship attacks.
>
> The anti-personal attack would be carried out by giving the fighter a
> weapon that fired magic missile spell which is fired at a high rate of
> fire. And the Anti-Capital ship attack by launching a torpedo type weapon
> that would be propelled by a modified Gust of Wind spell. The torpedo would
> carry a large magic type explosive that would carry a helm seeker type device.
>
> *** And those that would state that these weapons are impossable to
> research and perfect, I found it that the word "impossable" isn't as
> impossable that it sounds, remember that's what they said about breaking
> the sound barrier or having people living in space for long periods of
> time. If there is a will there is a way as they say! Besides magic is
> easyer to perfect then technology,  ie one wizard can do what a whole team
> of sciencetists to theorize in a entire year or more!
>   -Thank you thats all that I have to say for today.-
>
	Ack, I thought this thread died.  Oh well.
	Anyways, not bad angle on things.  However, I think it's a matter of
taste.  Personally, I don't use fighters for purely logistic reasons.
Basically, keeping track of a half dozen or so ships in battle is tough
enough as is, and having vast squads of fighters would only complicate
things.  If a 'carrier' classed vessile were part of a battle, yes it
would have fighters but not many.  For example, the Armada would have a
mere 10-12 fighters at most (then again, that's all that can reasonably
fit on it; I know, I drew deck plans;).  Most "carriers" have less than
half.  And for simplistics sake, fighters always travel in easy to use
squads.


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