[FT] KV Fighters - was Re: Schoon's KV Playtest Designs

> You really need to pay the heavy fighter costs for KV fighters as they

They do seem a little nasty, don't they.

As mentioned in Tim's previous post, KV fighters came under discussion in
the mailing list for Man/Kravak Wars, the PBEM I am currently running (a
10+
players fleet battle using the UOKVFB and FB). As I have never played or
played against KV forces, I had never really considered the KV equivalents
of the Human Fighter types - perhaps I assumed they would be covered in
FB2, who knows.. Anyhoo, here is one possible KV figher type that I thought of
given existing background info.. I was thinking along the lines of a kamikaze
at the time
:)

Expendable Squadrons(Fa'Tk'San) Those designed to do the decent thing to raise
the status of their Subfamilies back home. They are not armoured, the
additional space freed up being replaced with extra weaponry and explosives.
This counts as Interceptor weaponry, ie
a +1
attack vs fighters but also vs ships.

Expendable squadrons may still attack ships when they have no endurance, but
are expended 1 fighter attack (player chooses the number). When attacking
ships in this way, each fighter surviving gets a 3d6 Kra'Vak KPW (Kinetic
Projectile Weapon) attack as per MT26.

Any thoughts? I haven't thought about costs yet,

> Denny Graver <cyberdruss@clara.net> wrote:

> Expendable Squadrons(Fa'Tk'San)

I recall we had a discussion about "kamikazee" attacks some time in the
distant past.

You would have to price a suicide-capable fighter extremely high to
match its damage potential. Personally, I dislike the idea of suicide fighter
runs, but that's my bias.

> Expendable squadrons may still attack ships when they have no

I'd say that they'd have to have the endurance to make the attack. They're
maneuvering, if anything, more than a fighter simply making an attack run.