RE: SG2: Aerospace Morale House Rule

Just back tracking here a moment.....if teh NSL player is firing a
missile
on table then the rules simply require the VTOL to immediately make an
evasion move (I forget teh exact distance....) but he certainly isn't
required to leave the table....the Abort action you are referring to is
for
a VTOL wishing to ENTER the table but fails his Confidence Roll....

We have used VTOLs on quite a few occassions and in some we simply state
as
part of the scenario condition that the VTOL comes on on Turn X
(assuming
that the pilot/crew have passed the appropriate Conf check).

We are talking Stargrunt here; not sure if DS has a different On Table
results set.

Cheers,

Owen G

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allan Goodall [mailto:agoodall@interlog.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 April 2000 12:09 PM
> To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject: SG2: Aerospace Morale House Rule
> 
> 
> During my GenCon scenario playtest we encountered an 
> interesting situation.
> The Japanese player had extracted enough soldiers to draw. 
> With one last
> missile, the NSL player fired at the remaining VTOL 
> transport, hitting it but
> not penetrating it. The transport rolls a 2 on the +2 
> Confidence test (Veteran
> 2, needing >4 on a D10 to stay) and aborts his mission.
> 
> This got us into a discussion of aerospace vehicles and the 
> nasty Confidence
> Test that can have them abort even the most important of 
> missions. This rule,
> in fact, is part of the reason I don't use ADE in the 
> scenario. I don't want
> the Japanese player losing the scenario simply because the 
> transports were
> shot down (or worse, bug out) before reaching the battlefield.
> 
> So, I came up with the following house rule:
> 
> All aerospace craft have morale levels. They (usually) start 
> at Confident.
> When an aerospace vehicle must make a +2 Confidence Test, it 
> does so, but if
> it fails it does NOT immediately abort. Instead it drops 
> morale levels like a
> normal unit. 
> 
> If the aerospace unit is Confident or Steady, it operates as 
> normal. If it
> becomes Shaken, it immediately moves from the table top to 
> the Loiter Box. In
> order to leave the Loiter Box to move to the table top, a 
> Shaken unit must
> make a Reaction Test in the same way a Shaken unit must make 
> a Reaction Test
> to move towards the enemy. If the aerospace unit becomes 
> Broken or Routed, it
> aborts the mission.
> 
> This gives more flexibility while not complicating the game. 
> In fact, it
> slightly simplifies it because aerospace units now behave 
> almost exactly like
> ground units.
> 
> I look forward to questions and comments!
> 
> 
> Allan Goodall 		 agoodall@interlog.com
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> 
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