Breathing FT life into a description (S:AB)

Scott, Three Questions before I design the ships: 1. How many fighters aboard
each ship? (I have no idea, but need it to scale the ships) 2. Will the PCs be
flying any fighters? 3. How long do you expect the combat to last (without any
roleplaying)?

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Here's some initial suggestions (using your description, & what I remember of
S:AB).

Salvo Missile Launchers can used with some modification.

Offence Option: Instead of having a set range, they are moved as vector ships
with an initial velocity of 12 & 12 thrust points of endurance to expend (24
for ER missiles). Once the salvo has used all 12 endurance points, it explodes
whether there is a target or not. It still has the 3" engagement envelope in
vector.

Defence Option: SMLs can also be used as antimissiles. Each launcher not
already used this turn offensively, can fire at any missiles that end within
attack range (24 for standard, 36 for ER). Each missile in the salvo acts a 1
die of PDS fire, which can be allocated to any salvo in range (ie: can be
split to roll 1 PDS against 6 salvos). If the reduced salvo still reaches it's
target, roll the normal d6 to see how many are on target, with a maximum total
of the surviving missiles. PDS then attacks as normal.

If you want to do the bookkeeping, missiles can be individually fired (max of
6 per launcher). This would allow longer missile engagements & increase the
chances of a hit if you wanted to also allow each missile to act
independantly. The problem with this is that PDS then becomes overworked
unless you use it as a general defence (ie: not limited to 1 PDS per salvo,
but simply allocate PDS hits to the total number of missiles on target).

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