FT-Banzai jammers

6 posts ยท Mar 11 2001 to Mar 12 2001

From: Bif Smith <bif@b...>

Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:42:32 -0000

Subject: FT-Banzai jammers

I was thinking of the banzai jammers as stated by Oerjan as being a useful
ships to use if your enemy is coming in with SML`s, using them to trick them
to go after the banzai`s and not your ship. I had a thought about a different
kind of jammer, one that does away with FTL and is launched from a internal
hanger bay instead. If we assume that the decoy is mass 2, making the launch
bay mass 3, would it be cost effective to use mass 3 hyper capable decoys, or
the mass 2 internally launched decoys? I`m asking because the mass 2 decoys
could have other uses as sensor recon platforms depending on the sensor rules
you are using (and with a thrust of 14, they would be able to quickly scout
ahead of your force). Just a idea that probably would
work better if we had sensor/ecm rules that we could all agree on/play
with that were up to date.

From: Bif Smith <bif@b...>

Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 15:14:49 -0000

Subject: Re:FT-Banzai jammers

Laserlight wrote-

> My Islamic Fed BB's use 1 mass for FTL-tow, which gives a tow capacity

Why the extra point of armour on expendable assets?, doesn`t make sence to me,
or am I missing somethimg?

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:38:48 -0800

Subject: Re: FT-Banzai jammers

> I was thinking of the banzai jammers as stated by Oerjan as being a

My Islamic Fed BB's use 1 mass for FTL-tow, which gives a tow capacity
of 7 mass. I use it for 2 jammers at 3 mass each (1mass Thrust, 1 hull box, 1
point armor)

From: Charles Taylor <charles.taylor@c...>

Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:49:04 GMT

Subject: Re: FT-Banzai jammers

In message <001501c0aa49$c0843c00$4bee1a3f@pavilion>
> "Laserlight" <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:

> > I was thinking of the banzai jammers as stated by Oerjan as being a
Hmm.. if you swap the 1 armour for 1 PDS, they get a slim chance of surviving
the missiles they attract (well, I guess 'better than nothing'
is better than... nothing :-) - they can also be used as rather puny
gunboats using the PDS in anti-ship mode.

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:44:12 -0800

Subject: Re: Re:FT-Banzai jammers

> >My Islamic Fed BB's use 1 mass for FTL-tow, which gives a tow

To make it just a little harder for B3 to clear them away

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 16:26:37 -0800

Subject: Re: FT-Banzai jammers

Charles said
> Hmm.. if you swap the 1 armour for 1 PDS, they get a slim chance of

in which case anyone with a B3 can pop them from afar.

 - they can also be used as rather puny
> gunboats using the PDS in anti-ship mode.

I hope never to be that desperate for firepower