Yes.

All modifiers are column shifts.

Not really.

You did not miss anything. I think I was hoping the "accurate" trait would suffice, but come to think of it, it really isn't the same thing at all...

I've gone back and forth between thinking short & accurate is ok like the ones in the book, to wanting a true anti-fighter trait.  I think I'd prefer a real trait for the following reason:

There's no way to represent a gun that fires lots of low powered shots that will take out multiple fighters but do very little to ships.  Currently, unless I've missed it, to take out lots of fighters you need lots of dice, those dice could be turned on a ship and do a lot of damage too.  This is against what anti-fighter normally is. 

The simplest idea for a trait is to flip the -1 from fighters to ships.  You could then add accurate for more effect.

Aside from the "Dx2" and "Dx3" and "Catastrophic" traits?

I'm not sure I understand why you would do this...

Well yeah, but I tend to use that stuff to add flavor to a weapon, not just to make it cap-ship specific. I certainly don't throw it on everything I consider to be anti-cap ship.

I'm doing some custom stuff to try to make stronger roles for ship types and create a more combined-arms type feel. Part of this is going to be making fighters super deadly to large ships. Then I'm going to make smaller ships able to mount anti-fighter weapons that fire every time a fighter enters a hex within their range, creating a zone of death that fighters would have a hard time entering.

So I'm finding an ORAT cap on anti-fighter weapons is necessary since they get to fire a bunch of times during the fighter movement phase, and can't be allowed to be too strong.

I'll probably make a thread with all the details once I have it worked out and play tested a few times. I think it's gonna be pretty cool.

I thought I'd add a little more to the discussion.

The argument against doing what I suggested would be that having a range 1/2/3 weapon with Repeating or Scatter could and would also affect capital ships that that weapon could target.
And this is true.

That being said, what we've found in our playtesting is that most weapons that are constructed with the intent of targeting capital ships have much longer ranges than 1/2/3. The effect of this is that any capital ship relying on range 1/2/3 weapons to target capital ships are not going to be very effective at all. Range 1/2/3 weapons are effective at targeting fighters however, as those fighters must close to within range before they can even shoot. So eventhough there isn't an anti-fighter specific trait, the design of a weapon itself does the job.

Short range, with a lot of dice.

Kevin

The idea that Larger ships are more vulnerable to fighters than smaller ships certainly was not the case in WW2.  The battleship USS Missouri had many, many more AA guns than any US Destroyers.  The larger a ship is, the more A weapons it can mount.  I make sure all of my ships have batteries that are good at firing at fighters...
Otherwise your opponant could bring some fighters, and have his ships destroy your escorts and then have the fighters ravage your almost defenseless Big Ships...

Antifighter functioning exactly as in the past versions shouldnt be a problem (ignore the -1 when firing at fighters), but what about antifighter also applying a -1 to attack non fighter ships.  In effect, reversing the normal penalties vs fighters, and making the trait sort of a comprimise between normal attacks/antifighter attacks and the old fighter/starship exclusive traits.

"Derpy" is such an excellent word.

Fair enough. As mentioned before, I think I can see fit to adding the anti-fighter trait -- but I'm gonna stand firm (maybe) on fighter-exclusive/starship-exclusive.

Too bad for Ignore (never a problem to use it in an specific universe setting), but at least there are rules for conversion.

Marc

I think there is a place for fighter exclusive and ship exclusive, if only for specific settings. A "light" gun firing an AA shell can be fighter exclusive, and a big naval rifle firing an AP shell is ship-exclusive. I think the problem is when people abuse the process to make more powerful guns without using as much space. Would it work to include the traits but with a ORAT/DRAT mod rather than an SU mod?
What's wrong with calling a trait specifically geared to shooting down fighters and fighter like objects Anti-Fighter?
Seems like an accurate description of the function and clips nicely to "AF". 
Erik

I specifically try not to min-max when I play, but any kind of starship exclusive trait that offered even a moderate discount would be worth it to put on the majority of your weapons.