Are fighters worth it?
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lastbesthope
Mongoose
Not so, Breaching Pods have the Breaching Pods Special Rule in their stats, Fighters have Fighter
FIghters are subkject to the special rules that apply to fighters, similarly for breaching pods.
It's all in the rules
LBH
FIghters are subkject to the special rules that apply to fighters, similarly for breaching pods.
It's all in the rules
LBH
My Vorlon fighters are good for rolling up on small ships and shredding them apart with hits & crits before they can open up with antifighter defense. My backup fleet is Drakh: i'll argue the LR and HR aren't fighters, but if you want to hear a brick hit the floor, try 5 Points of War with only LR and HR counters! (I threatened our resident EA player with it, it's they only time I've seen him flinch in the face of a game!)
Commador Q
Mongoose
personally i like the ISA with Minbari allies for fighter heavy tactics. With access to the starfury, t-bolt, and nail. the ISA have some of the best fighters around. The WS fighter looks good to (as long as you get them by way of the WS carrier), but i haven't really gotten to use them much.
Of coarse if you really like fighters you could try to convince your group to try out the star wars mod.
Of coarse if you really like fighters you could try to convince your group to try out the star wars mod.
Vorlon fighters are vulnerale to other races fighters. It comes down to the initiative: if I win, and my fighters are back, I make you move first. You can close in and face antifighter beams, or stay back and do nothing. Then I move up and swarm the closest ship, since I like to take the Vorlons right into the enemy and my fighters fly close support. Then I shoot first and make things go boom. I think I lost more fighters to explosions than enemy fire last game. :roll:
Problem with vorlon fighters is the low speed/bad dodge combo - if you're trying to avoid dogfights, you need to keep your fighters attached to a Transport, as it will dissuade most anyone from coming close to them (assuming you force them to move first) - although obviously Thunderbolts could still quite happily engage them with shooting without fear of reprisals. Problems arise when your destroyer or transport has to APTE, however (which is quite often, especially for transports in order to keep them remotely near to being in range) - the fighters can't keep up.
Also, there's nothing to stop most anyone just throwing long range AD at your fighters. Their poor dodge makes them go poof quite easily.
Also, there's nothing to stop most anyone just throwing long range AD at your fighters. Their poor dodge makes them go poof quite easily.
OnlyTheShadowKnows
Mongoose
A friend of mine at my local store used my ISA with Whitestar fighters and I used my shadows....I destroyed all of his ships and left four of his whitestar fighters flying around. They continuously out classed my shadow ship and I eventually had to leave normal space to end the scenario and avoid them picking off my Shadow. I won and it was a good strategy that I had to utilize, the old hit and run scenario, and only gave him half my points. I got four points for his whitestar fighters that I destroyed in the first turn and all the points from his Whitestar Gunship and Carrier. So in other words yes they are worth it.
-OTSK
-OTSK
you know, I keep hearing what a useless piece of junk the WS gunship is, from 2 rounds of firing it destroyed 2 Drakh light cruisers, a light raider, heavy raider and a scout (it also blew a Morshin in an explosion but we don't talk about that!)
now any ship that can do that, can't be all bad surely?
now any ship that can do that, can't be all bad surely?
