Fighters are tractor beams

[geoschmo]

No, I am not saying the fighters would have longer range weapons than the ships.

The original point as I understand it was Empire A has long range weapons and sets strategy to max range to take advantange of their greater range. But Empire B launches fighters. Empire A's ships in an effort to attack the fighters with their PDC, which are shorter range than there own Long range weapons approach into range of Empire B's weapons and get shot.

The workaround suggested was to set Empire A's ships to not fire on fighters and count on the opportunity fire of the PDC alone to take care of the fighters. But my question is will that work? It will likely keep empire A's main guns from firing on the fighters, but will it keep the ships from moving to get the PDC into range? If so why would they have moved to begin with? They would have stayed at max range and shot the fighters with the main guns and only used the PDC when Empire B's fighters strayed into PDC range.

Does that make sense? At least my question I mean. I may be making an incorrect assumption, but you get what I am asking?

Geo

[ July 31, 2002, 16:33: Message edited by: geoschmo ]