RE: [FT] Cutter Beam Alternatives

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> From: Sean Bayan Schoonmaker [SMTP:s_schoon@pacbell.net]
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 7:49 PM
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	Re: [FT] Cutter Beam Alternatives
> 
> >Cutter Beam B
> >Mass/Cost as Class-3 Beam (max3 arcs)
> >Dice: 2 hit on 4+
> >Range: 36tu
> >Screen Effect: As Beam
> >Armor Effect: As K-Gun
> >Damage/Effect: Horizontal Damage. On a roll of all 6s the ship takes
a
> >threshold check at current level (or at 6 if on 1st row).
> 
> Sorry it's taken so long to respond to this, but of the varients you
> proposed, this would be the one I'd pick.
> 
> Could you explain the mechanic more clearly however. I don't get the
dice
> or range mechanic.
> 
> Schoon
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Sorry, I was out of town this weekend.

2 dice at 0-36". Roll each dice as Beam with no rerolls (4-5 = 1 damage
point, 6=2 (no rerolls) on unscreened targets; 5=1, 6=2 (no rerolls)
against
level-1 screened targets; 5=1, 6=1(no rerolls) for level-2 screened
targets). First damage point applied against armor, each remaining
points
applied to the next level down. All rolls of a 6 cause a threshold check
for
the target at the current level (or as first threshold level, if the
target
still have hull boxes in the first row). Not included in the first, but
I
would also suggest that the beam would have to damage at least 1 hull
box to
cause a threshold check (i.e. level 2 screens & armor or Phalon
multi-level
armor would postpone threshold checks).

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net	   
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