Aircraft charts
I have been experimenting with different formats for
the aircraft charts in Phantoms.
Here are some attempts (in Excel format), with charts for the F-14B and Su-15.
I have done the following:
I would be very interested to hear people's comments about the charts, in particular:
Here are some attempts (in Excel format), with charts for the F-14B and Su-15.
I have done the following:
- retained the two-aircraft-per-sheet layout
- placed the maneuver table between the two speed
table to make it easier to look up maneuver distances
- inverted the damage and altitude tables so that
higher on the page indicates higher altitude
- expanded the Ammo / A/B column into four columns
for: guns; heat-seeking missiles; radar-guided
missiles; afterburner (I may omit these and instead
give players an appropriate number of counters to
place on the chart (e.g. for the F-14B: 6 × gun; 4 ×
HS; 4 × RA; 5 × A/B)
- used Excel - it's not a desktop publishing
package, but it makes it easier to lay out all the
aircraft. I have used a lot of formulae and
conditional formatting to make life easier.
- added in images from www.wikipedia.com and www.aerospaceweb.org to jazz
things up.
I would be very interested to hear people's comments about the charts, in particular:
- Are they better than the standard ones?
- Is the mirror imaging for the A/B, Damage etc. rows good, or would it be better to always keep A/B on the left, etc.?