I would propose an addition to the WW rules - let it start vicinity Y172.

A ship can launch a "delayed" wild weasel. This shuttle suffers all standard plots and limits of a wild weasel, except the electronic decoy ability is not active on launch. Instead, at time of launch the player designates the time (time only, not range, not other conditions, not remote control) at which the WW initiates its electronics. If the ship's status at time of activation would void a WW, it immediately voids this WW.

Activation occurs in the shuttle activity phase of the impulse.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, April 20, 2002 - 02:02 pm: Edit

Been proposed before, and it won't work. The WW works by starting at the same point as the ship and looking more like the ship than the ship does. What you propose makes it a wild SWAC and that's not going to happen.

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Saturday, April 20, 2002 - 07:35 pm: Edit

Kirk, I think of the WW as a super chaff for ships. They have to start on or in the unit protected. Hay, that gives me a crazy idea. Don't know where to put it though. Drones...hmmm...large drones....ah, Module J2.

By Kirk Spencer (Kspencer) on Saturday, April 20, 2002 - 07:53 pm: Edit

ok. Then to save space, feel free to delete this topic.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Sunday, January 15, 2006 - 09:59 pm: Edit

I think this was mentioned in the Extreme Measures Module thread.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 04:20 pm: Edit

Reading back over the archive, I can't say that this looks like a viable proposal...(with SVC posting that it has been proposed before and that it wont work)

In the interest of supporting the "community" what if we pursue Lorens counter proposal?

Super CHAFF for ships is not a winning name IMO, but the idea is to have "CHAFF" rounds available on the ships might be workable.

If we go back and look at the original Wild Weasle rules, you (I think) will find that it was an ADHOC use of a Admin Shuttle.

What if we substitute something else for the Admin Shuttle?

Say a SSD box the size and shape of a Probe Launcher that has the same number of "rounds" of CHAFF that a Probe Launcher has of Probes... say the CHAFF rounds must be powered with 1 point of energy and the use and function of the CHAFF round is the same as a WW except that it:

1. has a similar movement ability to existing probes. (up to 6 hexes movement per any 32 impulse turn)
2. that it is treated the same as a normal WW by any seeking weapons that it successfully decoys.
3. that the CHAFF rounds and Probes are not internchangable, and that the CHAFF launcher can not use probes and the Probe Launcher may not use CHAFF rounds.
4. the BPV cost of such "CHAFF Rounds" is the same as it is for Probes.
5. the ships must comply with all normal WW rules when using these "CHAFF ROUNDS".

Comments?