Greg Smith
Mongoose
Instead of cluttering up the Armageddon - Wow! thread with the fighter dicussion, I'll start a new one.
Some points:
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Some points:
Greg Smith said:Del Putani said:You have NO idea how strange it is to read all of this.
Parking 18 flights of SF's in the side of a bintak was a dead battleship
Let's do the maths:
18 Starfurys: 36 AD twinlinked.
Bin'tak: Hull 6, 85 damage.
Average of 11 hits. Average (roughly) of 2 bulkheads, 7 standard hits, 2 criticals. Of the 85 damage, the Bin'tak is likely to be left with 72.
18 Starfuries would have trouble killing a Maximus.
Park 18 Starfuries next to a G'karith and they would kill it.
But then the whole Hull 6 debate rears its ugly head.
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Silvereye said:As to the giant fleet o' fighters o' doom. I don't think it is likely to be a problem as most scenario games are lost when you no longer have any ships left (fighters are auxillary caft). If you can actually surround a ship with 16 flights of fighters (a Poseidon or 2 Morshin's loadout worth) it is obvious that your opponent did not bring enough to stop it happening.
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Davesaint said:The thing you are missing is the criticals scored by the fighters.
Heck if I send 6-8 flights of fighters(which is 2-3 patrol) at a raid or higher level ship and I get a 1-6, 2-6, 3-6, 4-4,4-5, 4-6, or frankly any of the Vital crits they have paid for themselves. Oh I'm sorry Mr. Warlock, did I just eliminate that boresight weapon on you when you had my ship lined up? :roll:
Dave
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