RE: FT3 -- Cloaking

Unless the plasma ball/nova cannon/wave gun distort space to the extent
that
the connections between the pocket universe and the normal one are lost.
Then it would be a total loss for the cloaked ship.

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net	  
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Atcliffe [SMTP:Phillip.Atcliffe@uwe.ac.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 5:49 AM
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	Re: FT3 -- Cloaking
> 
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:16:26 +1000 Alan and Carmel Brain 
> <aebrain@dynamite.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > For Cloak rules, the ones I really like involve removing the model 
> (leaving a "datum" marker) and pre-plotting its movement while under 
> cloak. It can't see anything else. One problem is that with area
effect 
> weapons - Plasma balls - they should both make it visible and affect 
> the model. Bummer. <
> 
> Depends. I may be several generations of rules behind the times here
-- 
> EW is not something I use much -- but didn't the original PSB for the 
> FT cloak involve it putting the ship in a sort of pocket universe? In 
> that case, area weapons will be as ineffective as any other, because 
> the ship _isn't there_ to be revealed or damaged.
> 
> It certainly solves the lucky hit problem <g>.
> 
> Phil
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