Sensor Operators

MongooseMatt

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These guys are kinda important due to the EW rules. Would anyone have objections to the following text in High Guard?


Multiple Warheads Incoming!
Once ships start mounting bay weapons, the number of missiles they can throw at their enemies increases significantly. When multiple salvoes of missiles (or torpedoes) are incoming, even the finest sensor operator can become quickly overwhelmed. To counter this, large warships tend to have multiple sensor stations operated by several dedicated crew members.

Because of this, assume that a ship will have one sensor operator for every full 1,000 tons. A 7,500 ton ship, for example, would normally have seven sensor operators who could between them perform the Electronic Warfare action on seven different incoming salvoes.

At his discretion, a referee may specify a particular ship has more or less sensor operators, perhaps to reflect a ship in a universe where missile combat is not common or one that is expected to face nothing but missiles, but one sensor operator per 1,000 tons is a good place to start.
 
Can a smaller ship mount more EW operator stations? A pirate raider at 800 tons may want more than 1 operator defending him, because 2 SDB's shooting a salvo each at long range swamps the operator and pushes action to PD the next round.

Is there a computer program similar to point defence or Fire control that will perform EW attempts if no operator is available?

Can EW drones be launched by a fleet to try and spoof missiles as they come at them?

And in the new rules where all missiles fired become part of 1 salvo, in a fight between two 5000 ton ships, the attacking ship can launch a lot of missiles with bays and they all become part of a single salvo. The defending ship can defend itself once, leaving the other operators sitting there doing nothing. (They could defend other salvos going after other allied ships within close range, but otherwise they are spectators. That is a risk I guess, maybe they can shift to jamming attacks or sensor lock attempts.
 
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