Re: [FT] Banked Weapons

Instead of all that trouble, the Plasma Bolt Launcher from FB2 works
really
well as a Plasma Torpedo.

George

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Griffin" <carbon_dragon@yahoo.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 9:39 AM
Subject: [FT] Banked Weapons

> What would be the game effect of putting weapons
> in banks (ala Star Trek).
>
> For instance, I'm thinking of playing Romulans in
> our local FT game. I'd like to make the romulan
> plasmas feel a little different, but I have a
> very conservative group.
>
> What would be the game effect of having 4 classes
> of plasma torpedo, each of which is essentially
> a bank of 1-4 pulse torpedoes. In other words, a
> class 3 plasma torpedo would be 3 pulse torpedoes
> in one bank. They would fire together on one roll
> and either all hit or all miss. Further, they
> would only have one roll on threshholds, all going
> out or all staying up.
>
> Would that be more powerful, less powerful, or
> the same as buying the same number of pulse
> torpedoes to fire normally?
>
> If it turns out to be more powerful, what could
> be done to weaken it to "normal" level?
>
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