Steve -
As I have noted over in my Six Powers Campaign posts, I am currently fighting out a planetary assault. The Soviet Fleet is attacking an alien race, and has run into their planetary defenses. The implications of what is going on there are wide reaching, and I'm going to have to think about this for a while. However, this has raised something that I have been thinking about for a while.
The aliens are launching missiles from their PDC's at the incoming Soviet fleet. Each base has a launch capacity of ten missiles and has two fire controls (FC's). Their plan of attack is to combine salvoes so that they can overwhelm the Soviet point defense. While Aurora currently allows me to do that, it is cumbersome, and it got me thinking about the situation.
As Aurora currently works, I assign missile launchers to an FC, which guides the missiles launched by that launcher to the target. This includes every missile launched by that launcher that is currently active. This is somewhat cumbersome, because I have to change the launcher FC assignments if I want to juggle the number of missiles assigned to an attack wave, and even then it is difficult.
What I'd like to see is being able to assign missile salvoes directly to FC's, instead of launchers. Launchers would still be assigned to FC's, but this would only affect the missiles they are currently launching, rather than missiles already launched. This would also allow one ship to handle another's missiles, because once in space the FC assignments have nothing to do with the launchers. Missile salvoes would be directly assigned to an FC, rather than through their launcher.
Is this feasible, or would it be too difficult to change?
Kurt