Re: Hardened Systems

I personally am not into the 'hardening' issue for a number of reasons,
one of which is I assume the systems are already 'hardened', and that
the core systems are 'doubly-hardened' because they are in the INTERIOR
of the ship, not near the exterior sections of the ship(s). The idear
is that you have to peel away quite a bit of hull structure to even get
to those systems. So in you view it that way, the 'hardening' arguement
is a moot point, totally. You can't harden a firecon or a battery
because
they need to have components at the exterior of the ship in order to
function properly, and *those* are the bits that get hit on threshold
checks. By the time 50% of your hull structure is gone (half the ship!),
THEN you can start hitting the core systems (assuming you use them,
which
I don't; at least, not at the level they are represented in the FB).

But that's not why I'm replying.  :-)

>Listen to me - I hate random effects (If I knew of a diceless space
>combat game, I'd be all over it), 

One word: WarpWar.  :)

Mk
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