[FT] Phalon Fighters

8 posts · May 20 2002 to May 24 2002

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

Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 00:16:48 +0100

Subject: [FT] Phalon Fighters

As a tangent to the fighter discussions...

Ideas for Phalon Fighters.
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Configurable Weapons: Most Phalon Fighters mount an 'ultralight pulsar'
similar to the ship-mounted version, but much smaller, like the
ship-mounted version, these can be configured to fire in different
modes, and follow the same rules for configuration (but see below).

The 3 modes are:

Multi-purpose - as a standard fighter
Anti-fighter - as an interceptor
Anti-Ship - as an attack fighter

Typical Fighters mounting these:

Nith Class (4 points each) Tuus class (heavy fighter) (6 points each)
Vaan Class (fast fighter - was called an interceptor) (5 points each)

These is also a long range version that resembles the Tuus, but is only as
resilient as the Nith.

Plasma Bolt fighters: these mount a one-shot, miniature version of the
plasma bolt launcher, either... treat these as torpedo fighters, but they only
inflict damage on a roll of 4 or 5 vs. level 1 screen, or a roll of 4 vs.
level 2 screens, they have no secondary armament (cost 5 each) or...give them
a mini plasma bolt, launched as placed ordinance, radius 1 mu (.5 mu in
vector), damage 1D6. (cost??? each) or... mini PB too small to be noticed in
FB scale, but big enough to
auto-hit - treat fighter as torp fighter, but any die roll does damage,
level 1 screen negates 6s, level 2 screen negates 5+ (cost 6-7 points)

Vapour Shroud fighters
This mount no weapons, but have a small vapour shroud gland - each
fighter can produce enough vapour to shroud 5 MASS of ship (so a full flight
can shroud 30 MASS). Can be used to shroud friendly ships if screening as if
they had a vapour shroud gland. Can shroud enemy ships, makes them harder to
hit, but blocks target
ships firecon - can be engaged by PDS, but the vapour shroud fighters
get the benefit of the shroud.
Fighters only have enough 'fuel' for 1 shroud without re-arming.
(cost??? points)

It needs some more detail (like names for some of them), but what does
everybody think?

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

Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 18:26:45 +0100

Subject: Re: [FT] Phalon Fighters

One thing I neglected:

As an option, the Phalon Pulsar Fighters can be re-configured when they
are re-armed, should the optional rule on fighter re-arming be in use
(Fleet Book 2, page 4). This subtracts 1 from the re-arming rule, or,
optionally, 2 if re-configuring from anti-fighter to anti-ship or vice
versa.

i.e. reconfigure from multi-role to anti-fighter, roll 1D6, on a 1-2
fighter group is out of action for rest of game, on 3-6 group is
re-configured after 1 full turn.

Alternatively, use the standard re-arming rule, but add 1 turn to the
time required.

From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>

Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:09:22 +1000