Torpedo Boats in Traveller

[Condottiere]

You can send missiles in as a pack, or as lone wolves.

 

[J. L. Brown]

Yes, of course.


It's a simplification. It was originally conceived for smallish ships, launching <50 missiles. One salvo is a lot easier than tracking 50 separate missiles...

You can still do ToT attacks by launching missiles with different acceleration on different rounds, or the tasks in Element Class Cruisers.

I'm okay with simplifications, but would rather have 'All missiles from a particular ship, which will hit a particular target in round X'.

 

[AnotherDilbert]

I'm okay with simplifications, but would rather have 'All missiles from a particular ship, which will hit a particular target in round X'.

That sounds reasonable, but I'm not sure the practical difference is all that great. You want to overwhelm defences, so you want the maximum number of missiles to hit in the same round. The easiest way to achieve that is a full salvo of slow missiles, then a full salvo of fast missiles, both arriving in the same round.