Re: FB2

>Laserlight wrote:
>
>>>>Will one of you who already has the book stop smirking long
>>>>enough to tell us what changes, if any, are made to Human
>>>>ships?
>>>Apart from mixed-tech ships (which should work OK balance-wise,
>>>but isn't used in the Tuffleyverse until after the Xeno war) there's
>only
>>>one: the hull strength classes have been removed. You can now
>>>have any number of hull boxes, as long as "any" is at least 10% of
>the
>>>TMF.
>>
>>Then why were you and Beth audibly Keeping Quiet about
>>modifications to vector movement?
>
>Because a general modification to the *movement rules* doesn't qualify
>as a change to the *ships*, and you only asked about the ships :-)
>
>Vector changes are:
>- Thruster pushes are limited to 1 point per turn
>- All thrust used in a turn come from the Main Drive "pool" (but
>maneuvering thrust is still limited to half the thrust rating for
>standard engines)
>- Any number of rotations is allowed.

Before anyone starts screaming and jumping up and down, can I add a
clarification to this - in FB2, this rule amendment is a SUGGESTION only
(and clearly labelled as such), and not a hard rule change....

Jon (GZG)
>
>There's also a number of changes/clarifications to the fighter rules
>(which also aren't human *ships* <g>):
>- Fighter morale checks are taken *after* PDS have fired
>- The distinction between "carriers" and other ships is now officially
>dropped; any fighter-carrying ship can launch all its brood in one turn
>and recover up to half of it in one turn
>- There's now an official rule for rearming fighters during a battle.
>
>Later,
>
>Oerjan Ohlson
>oerjan.ohlson@telia.com
>
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