From: GBailey@a...
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 08:54:07 EST
Subject: FT: sensors
Are Active sensors 360 degrees? Can fighters make any sort of identification before making an attack? (I recently was in a battle when the enemy's 24 torpedo fighters attacked my smallest ship not knowing anything about my fleet composition) Can a capital ship, which gets 3 sensor rolls, target an object for 2 or 3 rolls in the same turn? Or must it choose a different target for each roll? Glen
From: Sean Bayan Schoonmaker <schoon@a...>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:19:05 -0800
Subject: Re: FT: sensors
> Are Active sensors 360 degrees? > From MT - Yes. > Can fighters make any sort of identification before making an attack? I would say yes. They would have the same range as passive sensors. > Can a capital ship, which gets 3 sensor rolls, target an object for 2 Sure, but they must all be allocated in advance - before rolling.
From: John Leary <john_t_leary@y...>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:56:03 -0800
Subject: Re: FT: sensors
> GBailey@aol.com wrote: XXX If your ships were in sensor range, he should have been able to know the mass of the your ships. JTL XXX > Can a capital ship, which gets 3 sensor rolls, target an object for 2 XXX House rules. One sensor roll is allowed per FCS on the searching ship. Any ship within sensor range is able to be scanned. XXX Bye for now,
From: Thomas Anderson <thomas.anderson@u...>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 19:54:18 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: FT: sensors
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Sean Bayan Schoonmaker wrote: > >Can fighters make any sort of identification before making an attack? or possibly less; a fighter carries a smaller sensor array than a ship, even though there may be 6 in a group (and hence interferometry, synthetic apertures and that). passive sensors but with half the range? tom
From: Thomas Anderson <thomas.anderson@u...>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 19:55:47 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: FT: sensors
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, John Leary wrote: > GBailey@aol.com wrote: only if he had enh/sup sensors and scanned them all first. as far as i can tell, basic sensors just get the actual mini put on the table, not any hard data. of course, i could have missed something (i read the MT sensor rules a few days ago, but very quickly). tom
From: Michael T Miserendino <MTMiserendino@l...>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 15:12:00 -0500
Subject: Re: FT: sensors
Michael Miserendino Senior Software Engineer Lincoln Re mtmiserendino@lnc.com > owner-gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU at internet 01/31/00 02:54PM >>> > >Can fighters make any sort of identification before making an attack? > or possibly less; a fighter carries a smaller sensor array than a ship, I have experimented with this quite a bit and found that using a shorter range than ships works well to balance between supposedly less powerful sensor packages than a ship and the far reaching range of the fighter.