Foxbat & Phantom

Glenn Robinson

I quite enjoy "Foxbat and Phantom", yet I was forever losing my sorry
MiG-21's to the Phantom. The main problem was the all singing, all
dancing RH missiles. As I was interested inthis I did some checking
onthem. This is the basis of the modifications. In order they are:-

1. Missile Range Point Allowance
2. RPA Hit Point Table (Rule 7.48)
3. Missile Carriage/Turn mode link
4. Addition of the Phoenix missile
5. Modification to the Lightning's 'RH' missile.

1. Missile Range Point Allowance

New RPA for Radar-homing Missile weapon for Starfighter, Phantom,
Tomcat, F111E, F-15, now 13 Range Point Allowance.

New range for Soviet Heat Seeking Missile weapon. Foxbat, Fishbed,
Flagon now 3 hexes.

New range for all non-Soviet aircraft Heat Seeking Missile weapon, now 4
hexes. 

When calculating the chance for a Soviet Heat Seeking Missile weapon do
not use ranges one or two. Instead count ranges 3,4,5 as 1,2,3
respectively. The same goes for Non-Soviet Heat Seeking Missile combat
except only range one is ignored - 2,3,4,5 now 1,2,3,4.

2. RPA Hit Point Modifications (replaces Rule 7.48)
RPA   5     0 Hit Points
RPA   6-10  2 Hit Points
RPA   11-15 1 Hit Point
RPA   16+   -1 Hit Points

(This last one is to show the fact that a missile's motor fires only a
few seconds, so at long ranges the missile's ability to manoeuvre is
greatly depreciated).

3. Missile Carriage/Turn Mode Link

Firstly, the Phantom, Tomcat and F-15 can have 4 Radar-Homing
Missiles and 4 Heat Seeking Missiles. If they do carry this weapon load
their manoeuvrability will be affected. To show this:

Add 2 to the present turn mode
Reduce by 1 for every 2 missiles of any type fired.

4. The Phoenix Missile

I don't use this one much as it is not much fun.

RPA - 60 (I worked it out as 120 but I thought your enemy should at least
have a chance to get on the map).

Turn-Mode

It retains the normal 2 up to 20 RPA
                      3    21-30 RPA
                      4    31-40 RPA
                      5    41-50 RPA
                      6    51-60 RPA

5. Lightning/Mirage F1 Missile Mod.

Firstly, the Lightning does not carry a Radar Homing Missile weapon.
Technically it is a 'Super Heat Seeking' missile. To show this count it
as a normal Heat Seeking weapon for ranges 1-5 . For ranges 6-12 use the
Radar-Homing technique but do not count electronic counter measures;
instead move two columns to the right of the actual hit point column,
i.e. 9-12 is now 16-20.

Finally, the French Radar-Homing Missile can change 'heads' to a Heat
Seeking missile. If used as this then keep the Radar-Homing range and
treat as for the British weapon.

I hope you find modifications acceptable. Without drastically altering
the game structure the game is balanced up in some respects, as the
Americans found in Vietnam, MiG-21's are not lightly dismissed.

Bibliography
Janes 'All the Worlds Weapons Systems'
Janes 'All the Worlds Aircraft'
Aviation & Marine magazines
Flight magazines
Aircraft Illustrated magazines
Armies & Weapons magazines