System: Distributed Fire Control Mass: 3 Cost: 30
The distributed fire control enhances the standard fire control system by
giving the ship the ability to transmit and receive fire control telemetry. A
DFC may be used as though it were a normal fire control system. If desired,
any ship with a working DFC system may choose to use it to receive fire
control telemetry from any DFC on any other friendly ship that has not yet
been used. The DFC receiving the telemetry cannot itself target any ships that
turn. Any DFC's that provide telemetry to a ship cannot later be used to
provide telemetry to another ship or to the ship's own weapons. Needle beams
cannot be guided by remote DFC telemetry.
In a message dated 03/02/97 17:41:34, you write:
<< System: Distributed Fire Control Mass: 3 Cost: 30
The distributed fire control enhances the standard fire control system by
giving the ship the ability to transmit and receive fire control telemetry. A
DFC may be used as though it were a normal fire control system. If desired,
any ship with a working DFC system may choose to use it to receive fire
control telemetry from any DFC on any other friendly ship that has not yet
been used. The DFC receiving the telemetry cannot itself target any ships that
turn. Any DFC's that provide telemetry to a ship cannot later be used to
provide telemetry to another ship or to the ship's own weapons. Needle beams
cannot be guided by remote DFC telemetry.
> [quoted text omitted]
I don't see any benifit in this under the rules in FT or MT why would you want
to effectively disable one of your own firecons in order to download
information from another ship when it will not alter your firing solution. If
it allowed you to increase your chance to hit or to increase the effective
range of weaponry I could see a use for it or are you requiring ships to
develop a firm loc on the target opposed by EW before firing on it?
Another use would be if it could transmit directly to suitably equipped
weapons DFC receiver Mass 1 Cost 5?
A DFC receiver is linked to one weapon at time of construction and allows that
weapon (and that weapon only) to receive targetting telemetry from a DFC
eqipped ship instead of a local firecon. This will allow a vessel to target
more ships than otherwise and to be able to fire even after losing all on
board firecons but all range bands will be regarded as 6 " shorter for each
12" telemetry transmission range i.e. C Batts range 0-6"; B Batts
0-6/6-18; A
Batts 0-6/6-18/18-30 if the DFC equipped ship is within 12" or C Batt
0-0; B
Batt 0-0; A Batt 0-12 if the DFC ship is 48-60" away
Interesting idea, however, current data links enable a ship to share track
data. This is different than a fire control solution, but I'm sure technology
will change that... This would mean that if one ship in the link has a fire
control solution, they all do... Better to call this item a Data Link and make
it expensive but only 1 mass. Any ship that has the link may provide a track
to any other ship in the link and vice versa. You still have to denote which
fire control systems is tracking what target for the designating ships... This
is primarily what the B5 fighters were for anyway. They remove the fighter
screen, get a track on the capital ship and give it to the mother ship... Away
goes the missiles, heavy PPGs etc.. Phil P.
Data Link Mass: 1 Cost: 5 points This systems creates a Data Link between
friendly vessels that carry the Data Link. Once a contact is tracked by the a
vessel in the link, all vessels have a fire control track on the target and do
not require a Fire Control system to lock on. Only general weapons such as AA,
A, B, & C may use this track. Torpedoes, Needler beams etc. require their own
Fire Con to engage a target. Superior Jammers may jam this system.... Let me
look at the probabilities to come up with this one... Phil P.
> CMitch5046@aol.com writes:
@:) << System: Distributed Fire Control @:) Mass: 3 @:) Cost: 30
@:)
@:) The distributed fire control enhances the standard fire control
@:) system by giving the ship the ability to transmit and receive @:) fire
control telemetry. A DFC may be used as though it were a @:) normal fire
control system. If desired, any ship with a working @:) DFC system may choose
to use it to receive fire control telemetry @:) from any DFC on any other
friendly ship that has not yet been @:) used. The DFC receiving the telemetry
cannot itself target any @:) ships that turn. Any DFC's that provide telemetry
to a ship @:) cannot later be used to provide telemetry to another ship or to
@:) the ship's own weapons. Needle beams cannot be guided by remote @:) DFC
telemetry. >>
@:)
@:) I don't see any benifit in this under the rules in FT or MT why @:) would
you want to effectively disable one of your own firecons in @:) order to
download information from another ship when it will not @:) alter your firing
solution.
You're right. Well, there might be some point but in rereading my
oh-so-carefully-worded description I realize that I got it wrong. I
was thinking more along the lines of:
... If desired, any ship with a working DFC system may choose to use it to
receive fire control telemetry from any number of DFC's on any
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
other friendly ships as long as those DFC's have not yet been used.
This allows one DFC on a ship to act as any number of fire controls. Any
number up to the number of other DFC's you have in the battle, that is.
> Craig Mitchell wrote:
Good idea. I like the idea of having an additional/virtual firecon, but
I
would prefer a reduced die roll(like -1 per die roll) versus a range
limitation.