The game rules of Brilliant Lances specifically state that
while the turret and barbette-mounted dampers listed there
can only engage one missle per turn, but "Larger damper
installations may conduct defensive fire against all missles
that fire on the ship during the turn."(pg.21)
In FF&S Dampers are designed by range. What's the cutoff?
The TL-15 damper shown has a range of 40,000 km.
If I build a range-10 damper, can I engage all missles within
10 hexes, even if I don't know if it is targeted on my ship?
(range difficulty modifiers are applicable here, of course)
If I have such a damper, but a fighter is braving defensive
fire to bring the missle in close, could I focus the damper
on it's missles while they're still on the launch rails?
For that matter, if I'm using a damper powerful enough to
have that kind of range, could I damp the figher's fusion powerplant?
What if it's using a fission plant?
John H Bogan (on his friend's account)