<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">"m w/ INTs"</span> = Mech-Link refit with Interceptors (usually 2 INT/PF allowed per ship with the Mech-Link refit)<br><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail-lighthead" style="border-width:2px;border-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-style:solid;font-weight:bolder;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">GENERAL PF MECH-LINK REFIT</div><a name="1.R1" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">(R1.R1) PF MECH-LINKS:</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"> All races which deployed PFs installed mech-links (</span><a href="K.html#2.2" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">K2.2</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">) on some of the tractor beams of some of their ships. The cost is 1 point per mech-link. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">Unless specifically authorized otherwise (e.g., shown on an SSD, listed in the ship description), no more than two tractors per ship can be refitted, and no squadron or fleet can have more than six PFs distributed among all of its ships (PFTs and SCSs excepted; Lyrans can have double this amount). See (</span><a href="S.html#8.32" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">S8.32</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">) for the limit on the total number of PF flotillas and fighter squadrons. A player cannot buy mech-links for his ships without buying PFs to go on them (one PF per mech-link). Some published scenarios and multi-scenario campaigns may create exceptions to this. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">PFs carried on the mech-links of non-PFT ships are considered "casual" PFs and may be loosely organized into "casual PF fIotillas, " but these units are not formal flotillas (</span><a href="K.html#0.3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">K0.3</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">) and do not include PFLs or PFSs. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">Most ships which receive this refit become casual PFTs (</span><a href="K.html#2.114" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">K2.114</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">) as a result. Casual PFTs cannot lend electronic warfare to their PFs as a single flotilla (most lack scout channels and cannot do it at all) and have other restrictions. Supplies are provided in (</span><a href="K.html#2.653" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">K2.653</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">) The cost of this refit (and any PFs or INTs carried) is not taken from Commander's Options, but is part of the basic cost of the battle force. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">This is the same refit as described under (</span><a href="R.html#11.R3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">R11.R3</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">). </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">These cannot be installed on PFs or bases. (Bases use the augmentation modules below.)</span> </div><div><br></div><div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">(R11.R3) MECH-LINKS:</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"> Starting in Y178, mech-links were added to the tractor beams of many ships. This increases tho BPV by one point for each mech-link added. Some Lyran SSDs are shown with mechlinks (because they were far more prevalent in the Lyran fleet than any other); if they are used, the BPV must be increased by one point per mech-link. Mech-links on ships in scenarios will be designated on a ship by ship basis with the subscript "m" as in Leopard+pm.</span> <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 6:34 AM Paul Meyer via SFBdrama <<a href="mailto:sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org">sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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For the Gorn, I'm seeing the option of ships with the addition of "m w/ INTs"</div>
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Can I get a clarification on what the 'm w/ INTs' means? I can't find reference for it.</div>
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Thanks.</div>
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