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Offline Rich.h (OP)

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Fighter Salvos
« on: November 19, 2014, 05:31:19 PM »
How do salvos work when fired from fighters? If I have a squadron of 10 fighters with 2 box launchers each, is it a single salvo of 20 missiles or 10 salvos of 2 missiles for point defence purposes?
 

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Re: Fighter Salvos
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2014, 06:05:25 PM »
If fired in the same increment, then 1 of 20.
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Re: Fighter Salvos
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2014, 04:33:13 AM »
Quote from: 83athom link=topic=7601. msg76972#msg76972 date=1416441925
If fired in the same increment, then 1 of 20.
What? Why would you even think that in the first place? And it's not exactly hard to sandbox it long enough to prove it untrue.

Quote from: Rich. h link=topic=7601. msg76971#msg76971 date=1416439879
How do salvos work when fired from fighters? If I have a squadron of 10 fighters with 2 box launchers each, is it a single salvo of 20 missiles or 10 salvos of 2 missiles for point defence purposes?
10 salvos of 2 missiles, of course.
 

Offline Charlie Beeler

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Re: Fighter Salvos
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2014, 07:02:09 AM »
Salvos are based on missile fire controls.  Salvo size is however many launchers are assigned to a single fire control. 
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