Just going over some old notes for my HH ships, and I had a thoght.
When missiles attack, the do all attack simultaneously. If they do, wouldn't`t
it be a good idea for normal FT ships going up against FSE ships
to mount 1 or 2 mass 3 boat bays to deploy probes/decoys of mass 2 (1
hull, 1 drive, thrust 10) to use to intercept said missiles or use them to
have a close range look at a enemy fleet?
BIF
> BIF wrote:
> When missiles attack, the do all attack simultaneously. If they do,
Not under the FB ship design rules; it is much cheaper to tow the decoys
using FTL tug drives or make them FTL-capable in their own right (which
also allows them to serve as couriers).
Using banzai jammers (BJs) is a common anti-missile tactic and works
well against fleets which rely too heavily on their missiles, but in my
experience FSE forces usually have enough beam batteries to destroy a large
portion of the BJs with medium-range beam fire before launching
missiles.
Decoys with a single damage box (eg. TMF 2 ones, or FTL-capable TMF 3)
are very easy to destroy in this way, since even a single beam die has a 50%
chance of destroying them.
Later,
> --- Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> wrote:
A use for scouts other than a speed bump (small one, looks good but not
functional)
> Using banzai jammers (BJs) is a common anti-missile
Bj's some new weapon not in the books? I don't recalling it in any of the
rules.