Basically, this is an Idea that I had to create fighters just like the missile design system I had for another game of mine. I suppose that you could use it for creating SFB fighters if you went to the trouble to balance them with existing designs. This system's purpose is to create Small Units - Fighters, Runabouts, Shuttles, whatever - for some of the games that I've designed.

Pretty simple - pick what you want on the unit, and add up the costs as indicated - then draw a diagram to represent the unit in the game.

• Tech Level - 5 points per Tech Level, Tech Level 1=5, TL2=10, etc.
• Damage Points - Each Damage Point costs one point
• Missile Rails - Each Missile Rail is 2 points
• Maximum number of rails is DamPts/2 (drop fractions)
• Each Rail carries one unit of missile ordinance
• Point Defense Guns - Each Point Defense Gun costs 2 points
• Maximum number of PD Guns is DamPts/10 (drop Fractions)
• Each PD Gun does 1 point of damage, at range 1 or 0.
• Lasers - 5 pts/pt of laser, max laser damage = DamPts of Ftr
• Lasers loose 1 point of Damage per hex/unit of space travelled through (a 5 pt laser would be 3 pts after going through 2 hexes)
• Dog Fight Rating - Dog Fight Rating - 2 points X # Bays used per rating.
• Speed - 1 point per speed (how fast you can go)
• Endurance - 1 point per point of Endurance over 4

Now, add up all these values, and divide by 5 to get the VALUE of the Fighter.

To figure out how many bay spaces on a carrier this fighter takes up:

• Find your Tech Level on the far left column
• Run your row over until you find how many damage points the Unit has
• Go up the column to find the number of standard bay spaces your Unit takes up