it's probably already been thought of, but how about having an alpha strike attack mode? anyone who's played mechwarrior three will know what this is, where you basically press a button and it unloads your entire arsenal in one fiery blast (really fun when sniping with rail guns, but anyways) but i was thinking of just having it with missiles. I got this idea while reading the topic about visual missile launches, at the bottom of page two, or top of page three, but anyways, here's the bulk of it:
-press designated "alpha strike" button
-drop ALL dumbfire missiles, but in the manner suggested where the missile starts out with only the ship's velocity, then half a second after the dead-launch, afterburners activate
-drop missiles from the cargo hold at 4/second, creating almost a machine-gun/shotgun effect with the missiles
and imho, this would only be really cool with dumbfires, while shooting at a large target, but that's mostly just for the visual effect
