‘Fighter’ of the Week, Issue #100 - Condottiere

[mbear]

Looking at it, the best thing it's for is long duration escort/customs boat against recalcitrant merchantmen.

It'll die once someone gets into position, but it will make them hurt. In some ways, it's the attrition unit space warfare needs, providing a very low end to a high-low mix of units so there can be hulls in space over as many worlds as possible.

So it sounds like it's a "beat cop" craft. Not really going to be great in a fight but it's there to "show the flag" and remind people that they're in a fortified system.

Or maybe it's the AeroSpace equivalent of a Primitive Rook? It'll get killed pretty quickly but maybe it'll give your more capable forces time to respond and maybe take out a few opponents.

[Coldwyn]

Just a thought: a wing of Condos seem to work well with a wing of Yùns. The Condottieri make strafing runs while the yuns drop ground forces.

[Trace Coburn]

Just a thought: a wing of Condos seem to work well with a wing of Yùns. The Condottieri make strafing runs while the yuns drop ground forces.

  It'd have to be strike runs - Condies don't have forward-firing energy weapons, so they can't Strafe.  And even with Nimakachi's liberal approach to foreign sales, I don't see a high probability of a Republican-made patrol-shuttle and a Liao troop-lift ASF being on the same side of any of the wars in the coming era.  :-\

[Coldwyn]

  It'd have to be strike runs - Condies don't have forward-firing energy weapons, so they can't Strafe.  And even with Nimakachi's liberal approach to foreign sales, I don't see a high probability of a Republican-made patrol-shuttle and a Liao troop-lift ASF being on the same side of any of the wars in the coming era.  :-\

It´s been a long time since I last used Aerotech units, so my skill sthere are rusty at best. Checking TW p. 245 and such, I can´t find anything about the weapon distinctions. I wouldn´t mind if you´d point me to the right section.
As for the rest, it´s in a mercenary TRO and availlable as loot from conquered worlds, something the cappies are not inexperienced in :P

[A. Lurker]

It´s been a long time since I last used Aerotech units, so my skill sthere are rusty at best. Checking TW p. 245 and such, I can´t find anything about the weapon distinctions. I wouldn´t mind if you´d point me to the right section.
As for the rest, it´s in a mercenary TRO and availlable as loot from conquered worlds, something the cappies are not inexperienced in :P

You'll want to start on p. 242 and read through from there. That should among other things yield that

(a) fighters are only allowed to use their nose- and front wing-mounted weapons in air-to-ground attacks (p. 243, "Firing Arcs");

(b) a unit may "fire one, some or all of its direct-fire energy and pulse weapons when strafing" (also p. 243, "Strafing", second paragraph); and

(c) a unit may "fire one, some or all of its weapons at the target, except for bombs" when striking (p. 245, "Striking", second paragraph). Bombs are exempt because bombing is once again its own attack mode (two of them, actually, dive and altitude bombing respectively).

The whole section has also received a bit of errata, which you may also want to check out, but none of it changes these three points.

[Coldwyn]

Thanks you!

Found the relevant passage and now I´m wondering. From somewhere I had in mind that you only could use rapid fire weapons for strafing, meaning pulse, xpulse, rotary and such. I must take a look at older rule-sets where that could have come from. So therefore, my impression was that RACs would be strafing capable.

[Weirdo]

If so, it's pre-AT2, which didn't come out long after RACs were first introduced.

[Coldwyn]

If so, it's pre-AT2, which didn't come out long after RACs were first introduced.

After checking Maximum Tech and AT2, I found where my error lies: Had the wrong system in mind.