Ground-Based Fighters

From: Jeff Lyon <jefflyon@mail.utexas.edu>

> I think I've come up some ideas which will help eliminate most of

> The first was a conceptual change; I quit trying to translate the

Sounds like a good abstraction for your purposes.

> The next issue was to balance the cost of FT fighter squadrons which

> The first is to purchase a minimal base station for each squadron;
Mass
> 10-11, fragile to weak hull integrity, mass 9 hangar bays, cost: 39-42

The two are essentially the same, differing only in detail. The former gives
you a ship or structure to use in accounting for assault on-planet. It's
almost exactly what I did drawing up the New Israel fleet. all my
planet-based fighters cost +38 points per group and take 1 turn to
transit
the atmosphere/ escape the gravity well of the host planet. Extra cost
is
just what you say PSB-wise- tarmac/launchpad, bunker, control, and
escape boosters for the fighters.

There was some discussion of ground-based fighters some months ago.
Should be in the archives.