On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Greg Nokes <greg@nokes.name> wrote:

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> Also I see them being used to kill fuel shuttles, blow up things the marines don’t want to deal with, kill other fighters, tanks, shuttles, scouts, missiles etc.

The fuel shuttle one got me as very clever - the fleet is tied in High
Guard, waiting for fuel,and if you can cut the lifeline, they're
stranded.
So Tigress high and fighters low, and the enemy fleet is faced with an
impossible choice.

Blowing up things marines don't want to deal with - IIRC, there's a
line in the MT rules about when calling for ortillary, unless prior
arrangements have been made there's a 1/6 chance the ship is in the
right portion of its orbit to provide fire. But if you put a dozen
fighters in orbit, the marine on the ground should get fire when he
wants it.

>
> I often explain that the Tigress style of Dreadnoughts are self escorting, due to the 300 fighters each carry. Have a Batron of 6 of those bad boys jump in system and you have a potent force to really control the entire system on hand.
>
>
> On Oct 7, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <schwartz.jeffrey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://tech-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/10/05/1843222/us-navy-develops-robot-boat-swarm-to-overwhelm-enemies
>>
>> I can see the 3I using all those fighters that aren't much use against
>> other battleships in this kind of role - keeping the launches and
>> cutters that might or might not be suicide shuttles at bay.
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