just a thought....
since the SV womb must launch its fighters before generating more, maybe the
SV carriers could purchase a launch bay holding type area for created ftrs.
this would prevent the launching of piecemeal flights.
of course the question is how many ftrs can it hold? a ship doesn't wanna
waste too much mass for this holding area either. any help for making this
idea viable would be appreciated. anyone care to take the ball an run with it?
dave
David Reeves asked:
> since the SV womb must launch its fighters before generating more,
Such a holding bay would be 6 Mass per drone squadron it could hold.
Regards,
> >since the SV womb must launch its fighters before generating more,
> >since the SV womb must launch its fighters before generating more,
Nyrath: Maybe it can be mobile. I'm thinking about that frightening scene in
Babylon 5. One of those hideous Shadow ship flies up like a spider from hell.
It seems to pucker in the middle, and spits out a spiky ball. The ball flies
into the middle of a formation of enemy ships, then explodes like a detonating
hornet's nest into a swarm of Shadow fighters!
Ooo. Howabout Eggsac:
+1 energy and +1 mass (or +2 or +3 energy) per drone group produced,
limit 4 groups. Eggsac is launched as SM; 24" range in F arc. At "detonation"
location, Egg bursts and all drone groups are launched, each can use its full
movement.
Eggsacs require 3 energy in D pool and 1 mass/20 turns to maintain, so
they can't be "charged up" indefinitely.
I thought they looked more like some form of submunition rather than fighters.
I can hear the complaints now 'fighters having 48" movement, bloody SaVasku
too hard already mutter mutter.'
[quoted original message omitted]
> -----Original Message-----
location,
> Egg
Of course, the egg sack is vulnerable to threshold checks and needle guns. If
it is damaged before launch, all drones are lost.
So it basically doubles the initial flight of the drone groups for 1 mass and1
energy and provides a way for SV wombs to "store" drones for a massive launch.
> [quoted text omitted]
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:19:03 +0200 From: "Oerjan Ohlson" Subject: Re:
[FT]: SV
> David Reeves wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
No, meaning 1 mass/drone * 6/squadron = 6 mass.
The holding bay is effectively identical to a non-SV fighter bay, but
without all the re-arming/re-supplying equipment (since the SV ship has
those parts in its drone womb instead).
Regards,
> [quoted text omitted]
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 08:49:21 -0400
From: "Izenberg, Noam"
Subject: Re: [FT]: SV womb mod for fighters
since the SV womb must launch its fighters before generating more, maybe the
SV carriers could purchase a launch bay holding type area for created ftrs.
this would prevent the launching of piecemeal flights.
Nyrath: Maybe it can be mobile. I'm thinking about that frightening scene in
Babylon 5. One of those hideous Shadow ship flies up like a spider from hell.
It seems to pucker in the middle, and spits out a spiky ball. The ball flies
into the middle of a formation of enemy ships, then explodes like a detonating
hornet's nest into a swarm of Shadow fighters!
Ooo. Howabout Eggsac: +1 energy and +1 mass (or +2 or +3 energy) per
drone group produced, limit 4 groups. Eggsac is launched as SM; 24" range in F
arc. At "detonation" location, Egg bursts and all drone groups are launched,
each can use its full movement.
Eggsacs require 3 energy in D pool and 1 mass/20 turns to maintain, so
they can't be "charged up" indefinitely.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
noam,
i like that alot! now if a couple of ships launched eggsacs at once, the SV
(or Shadows) could field a whole mess of ftrs at once....
dave
> [quoted text omitted]
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:11:06 -0400 From: "Bell, Brian K" Subject: RE:
[FT]: SV womb
mod for fighters -----Original Message----- From: Izenberg, Noam
[SMTP:Noam.Izenberg@jhuapl.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 8:49 AM
To: 'FT List'
Subject: Re: [FT]: SV womb mod for fighters =20 since the SV womb must
launch its fighters before generating more, maybe the SV carriers could
purchase a launch bay holding type area for created ftrs. this would prevent
the launching of piecemeal flights. =20 Nyrath: Maybe it can be mobile. I'm
thinking about that frightening scene in Babylon 5. One of those hideous
Shadow ship flies up like=20 a spider from hell. It seems to pucker in the
middle, and spits out a spiky ball. The ball flies into the middle of a
formation of enemy ships, then explodes like a detonating hornet's nest into a
swarm of Shadow fighters! =20 Ooo.
Howabout Eggsac: +1 energy and +1 mass (or +2 or +3 energy) per drone
group produced, limit 4 groups. Eggsac is launched as SM; 24" range in F arc.
At "detonation" location, Egg bursts and all drone groups are launched, each
can use its full movemen= t. Eggsacs require 3
energy in D pool and 1 mass/20 turns to maintain, so they can't be
"charged up" indefinitely. =20 Noam =20 =20
Of course, the egg sack is vulnerable to threshold checks and needle guns. If
it is damaged before launch, all drones are lost. So it basically doubles the
initial flight of the drone groups for 1 mass and1 energy and provides a way
for SV wombs to "store" drones for a massi= ve launch.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
sounds reasonable to me, brian.
dave