Topic: Is there a way to make a Carrier use both Fighters and PF's?

[Tulwar]

I have been working on my shiplist for a ISC pacification campaign, it will have full fighter squadrons.  Ships will have ther right fighters on them.  Only rule people may not like is you have to stay with the fighters that come with the ship, you can replace them, but can't change types (until the complement the carrier carries is updated for the year, thus enforcing that you don't carry all hellbore fighter, or the best out there).

STOP READING MY MIND!!!

I've been partial to a fixxed fighter complement for carriers, myself.  It seems something one could use for server rules with a custom shiplist.  One could even allow for modernization with a simple rule saying that a fighter can only be replaced with a more modern version, say a Federation player could replace a Jay I with a Jay II, but not a Vulture.  In any case, I'd like to see SFC IV with a completely new way of handling fighters and an improved list.

I would like to see the fighter system altered all the way down to the lowly administrative shuttle.  If the slowest missle was sped up from 8 to 16, and the Rom WB was allowed a max speed of five, why are the administrative shuttle still stuck at speed 6?  Maybe speed it up to 8?  Now that's easily done by editting the fighterlist.  Of course, you could turn all the administrative shuttles in MRS's.  Then if they do succeed in making SFC IV, then they might be able to stick in the really wierd stuff like cloaked decoys.  Now that would be something!

[Panzergranate]

Admin shuttles are only capable of speed 6 in SFB, not speed 20 as in SFC.

I added in multi-role shuttles, mine layer shuttles, mine sweeper shuttles, etc. for all the various races that use them in SFB, into the common SFBSPC13.TXT shiplist file we use in the SFC 1 LAN games here. MRS shuttles do OK in system and space station defence, especially if the enemy hasn't worked out what they are.

The Klingon MRS-B are pretty effective against freighters and lesser warships, especially if a group of 3 or 4 MRS-Bs fire their Drones simultaniously at a target.

All the additiona;l shuttles have to be pre-deployed using FMSE in a scenario.

[FPF-DieHard]

This may be a half-assed way to do it.   Put the PFs on the Escorts.   This way you can field a full-sized squad if you really want to.

Example:
K-C8S (12 Z-YCm)
K-AD5 (1 G1L, 2 G1  PFs)
K-AD5 (3 G1 PFs)

I'm assuming 3 players, one for each ship otherwise the AI is just retarted.

I'd made a full-fighter compliment list for the SGO mod but we never used it.  Only way I'd consider it is if the fleeting restrictions REQUIRED at least one of the carriers wignmen to be an escort.  I actually think it would be kinda cool but we decided against it as it would have been too complicated.