Re: DSII Vehicle creation page

G'day

 >The rules for "Cybertanks", page 19,
 >left column, are hereby attached to my
 >question.

Luckily enough I happen to have a DS rulebook on my shelf (sandwiched 
between my calculus textbook and an ichthyology text so my supervisor
would 
stop giving me weird looks every time he walked in and found it on my 
desk). So now I'm up to par, I still wouldn't increase the cost of your 
tanks much at all anyway. Off the top of my head an extra 50 points or 
something fairly nominal would probably suffice given the fact the
current 
morale system rarely if ever effects tank units (in my experience they 
usually die well before being effected by morale). If you use one of the

suggested sets of house rules for morale you might want to up the cost
of 
the AI as it will have more of an effect. Alternatively you may want to 
give them the ability to ignore morale or know everything that all other

tanks on the field know (less LOS issues for instance), but give them a 
downside too (say they have a hierarchy and if a node is blown then all
the 
subordinates either stop dead for a turn/forever, or continue on the
last 
action regardless, or automatically revert to trying to stop the nearest

enemy unit). My Daleks aren't effected by morale much, so to balance it
out 
I gave them a suppression under first fire (they're spinning around
rather 
frantically announcing their intentions to exterminate) and they have an

Emperor (if you find and kill it then they all pretty much go
away)...blue 
police boxes and men in scarves can often unsettle them too ;)

Have fun

Beth

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