repost of Mike Wikan's Ftr Sub-packs

Mike Wikan posted this on 8/4/98.

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This is a suggested addition to FT for those of you who like a little more
"Oomph" in your fighter groups...

Disposable Submunition packs for Fighters. Cost=2 per fighter

These packs may be added to Standard and Heavy fighters and consist of short
range Hunting antiship missiles. They have a 6" range and function as a
submunition pack with 1 die rolled per fighter in the attacking
squadron. a 1-3 misses, 4-5 scores 1 point, and a 6 scores two points.
Shields have no effect. As long as the fighters are armed with Sub Packs they
are considered laden and dogfight with other fighters as if they were attack
fighters. At the beginning of any dogfight, a squadron may choose to jettison
it's Submunitions, losing them for the remainder of the battle. If the
squadron jettisons it is considered a fighter of it's basic type as normal.

This will give a slight edge to fighter squads attacking shielded targets.

Michael Wikan, Game Designer Accolade, Inc.

[clarification from follow-up post] It is ONE DIE per fighter, so 6 beam
dice that ignore screens.