Carrier status

> As I have done some thinking, I expanded this idea - I'm sure I nicked
cost. -
> 1) FireCon - the standard we all know and love

Well, this was something we have been doing with FTII at my local club for
quite a while now. Instead of having just Fire Cons, we also had Launch Cons
which would allow a ship to launch 2 groups or recover 1 group every turn for
each Launch Con they had (ships with no Launch Cons could launch 1 group per
turn or recover 1 group every two turns). The basic Fire Cons on a ship could
be swapped for Launch Cons for free and extras could be bought in exactly the
same way as Fire Cons. This way it was easy to create a dedicated carrier that
relied on its fighters to fight or ones with only minimal combat capability
(my personal favourite carrier had 3 Launch Cons, an ADAF and a PDAF, three
screens and 6 fighter groups for about 98 Mass. Love that ship).

Its quick and simple and pretty realistic. And the best bit is it works.

> Jared E Noble wrote:

> 2) FlightCon - Any ship with fighters (or landing craft) may launch

I like this idea also. I would keep the recovery to 1 fighter group per turn,
however.

One could make the change from a Firecon to a Flightcon simply by drawing a
circle around it BEFORE the game begins. Any Firecon that is not circled if a
Firecon not a Flightcon. This would stop the neccesity of changing the
Fleetbook.

One could also make it that on a successful Damage Control Party roll for the
Fire/Flight control, it could be changed from a Flightcon to a Firecon
or vice versa. But this idea is probably too much trouble to be worthwile.

Since I am on the American continent and do not, yet, have a Fleetbook, has
there been a change on what size ship can carry fighters?

> Since I am on the American continent and do not, yet, have a

Yes, any ship can now carry fighters, subject to there being enough room.