Fighters and FlatTop Carriers [CLEAN STAMP]

> On 6/24/99 11:02 AM, djwj wrote:
Subject: Re: Fighters and FlatTop Carriers

In the Tuffleyverse fighters have certain advantages that larger ships just
don't have. First: (Brian Bell wrote:)
> > 2 - Cost

And of course, there's the traditional argument:
6 - In the 20th century, carriers are the only thing that can project
the
power of the fleet beyond the range of the ship-borne guns. (This is the
same argument used in the book "Debt of Honor" by Tom Clancy). This doesn't
apply to Full Thrust games, because the scale of the conflict is too small to
worry about the ability to project power into the planet next door.