I have been playing Full Thrust for a couple years now (or at least using the
basic system) But, I never paid much attention to the ships in the books. I
finally purchased the Fleet book and have recently played a few games using FT
"offical" minis and ships stats. (NSL ships)
I have one serious comment / concern:
Why would a nation build a ship with 5 different weapon systems with only 1
fire control? I could understand 2 (or maybe 3 in an extreem case) weapons to
use as back up systems for when weapons are knocked out, but 5 (Kronprinz
light cruiser)? In my experience a ship will be completely distroyed long
before it looses all of it's weapon systems. Is this just to show poor German
design <ha>? or... i dunno any insite?
Has anyone thought about allowing all weapons to fire every turn, and using
fire control as the number of different ships that can be
targeted. example: 5 batteries + 2 fire controls = 5 batteries on 1
target, or 3 on one 2 on another, etc... (assuming the target is in the proper
firing arcs)
Thanks in advance + my $0.02
Christopher
Ummm, that's the way it works. One firecon allows you to fire at one target
with some or all weapons; two firecons allow you to split your fire between
two targets or fire all at one, so on and so forth. In other words, fire
controls have NO effect on the number of weapons you can fire; they only
affect the number of TARGETS you can shoot at.
Mark
> "Chris !!!" wrote:
> I have been playing Full Thrust for a couple years now (or at least
Mark Reidl said: Ummm, that's the way it works. One firecon allows you to fire
at one target with some or all weapons; two firecons allow you to split your
fire between two targets or fire all at one, so on and so forth. In other
words, fire controls have NO effect on the number of weapons you can fire;
they only affect the number of TARGETS you can shoot at.
Not exactly. One fire con will allow you to fire all your SML's and beams at
one target. Torps and needle beams require a separate fire con.
okay okay okay
I feel like a real dumb _____ . [insert word of choice]
In all the time i've owned the FT books I've never more then skimed over the
core rules. (I was taught to play by another, who aparently didn't know the
rules correctly.)
Logic said that the fire controls should be for targeting and not for firing,
and thats how it is (amagine that!)
So, now the fleet ships don't seem so bad. Any how thanks for the 'insite'
your welcome for the laugh.
CMC
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> Ummm, that's the way it works. One firecon allows you to fire at
=
> In other words, fire controls have NO effect on the number of weapons
Just for clarification: having an active FireCon at all allows you to fire
SMs; you don't need to target a specific ship since they tend to go for the
nearest target, anyway (house rules excepted, of course:).
Mk
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> Laserlight wrote:
> Not exactly. One fire con will allow you to fire all your
Whoops, I was speaking from the standpoint of someone who never uses torps or
needle beams:)