Fighters more common in ACTA : NA

[lastbesthope]

From planet Mongoose

Currently playtesting an intersting 'tweak' to Noble Armada, will appear in the Fleets supplement. Fighters about to become more common!

Colour me intrigued...

LBH

 

[Greg Smith]

We played a playtest game with this tonight. Prepare to take your Osprey models off the shelf. :lol:

 

[locarno24]

Interesting.

Making fighters (as in specifically fighters rather than simply attack craft) more useful would indeed be nice.

At the moment, Fighters are only really useful for ragging on bombers - which means that if your opponent doesn't bring any, you've both wasted the cost of the fighters and spent points on an undergunned carrier to field them. Yes, in theory they can hit ships which have lost shields, but that doesn't happen often enough to encourage me to spend points on them.

 

[tneva82]

Yes, in theory they can hit ships which have lost shields, but that doesn't happen often enough to encourage me to spend points on them.

Isn't knocking shields out pretty damn easy? What with burn-out being on virtually every ship (well apart from fleets which ignore shields to begin with by having slow weapons instead)

 

[Greg Smith]

It can be a case of making sure you move fighters into range of a ship that you know you are going to fire at. You must then sequence your fighter fire so that it comes after shields are down but before the target is destroyed.

Fighters can be also be useful for attacking ships with fluctuating shields.

 

[tneva82]

It can be a case of making sure you move fighters into range of a ship that you know you are going to fire at. You must then sequence your fighter fire so that it comes after shields are down but before the target is destroyed.

Well moving part shouldn't be too hard and as for sequence after first ship fires usually works Shields generally(at least barring dreadnought level ships) don't survive more than first volley per turn. So basically one ship fires and then fighters have free reign.

IMO bigger issue is simply that even then they don't pack much of a punch compared to points and bomber variants are pretty easy to clear the sky from.

 

[Greg Smith]

IMO bigger issue is simply that even then they don't pack much of a punch compared to points ...

I agree. The new rules will change that.

I found Hazat bombers a pain to shoot down (Hull 5!!) :x

 

[AdmiralGrafSpee]

Glad to hear you guys are improving testing the fighter rules for NA. Not that I was aware there was any problem with them, but good on ya! Here's hoping these rules make their way over to SF sometime in the future.

-Tim

 

[miggel]

Nice, when can we get more info????

 

[pars-claws]

Great news! I'm so glad I've ordered the extra fighters. All I need now is a death star to go up against