Missiles as units (a.k.a microdrones)

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Batman:
1) AFHAWKi fighter missile. Should be easy to do.

Yeah, no problem. You can put PDC on them at least. You may be able to put an actual warhead that targets fighters only. Not sure about that.

2) SBMHAWK:warp-capable missiles (might need to model them as ships, which, if I recall, means they can't be cargo. Catch-22)

Drones are warp capable, so no problem. Well, little problem. You have to have something on the other side of the warp point painting the target for you.

3) AMBAM. Anti-mine missiles (in the books they were described as low strength missiles with a large bLast radius, just enough to set off mines)

No problem. Drones hit mines just fine. In fact you could probably even put a minesweeper component on a drone. Haven't heard of anyone trying that. But if it doesn't work, just make it with low damage warheads and high structure fo the missle to soak up lots of mine damage. The only problem is, as with the warp missles, you can't simply tell a drone, "Go hither and sweep those mines.", you have to give it an attack order. Which means there will ahve to be an enemy in the minefield the drone can see, or one on the other side so the minefield is in the drones attack path.

Geoschmo