Re: [FT] WotW #10 Damage Shields (Was Real Shields) (long)

On  6-Jun-01 at 14:13, David Griffin (carbon_dragon@yahoo.com) wrote:
> This one sounds promising. I wonder if Jon is
> going to include something like this in the
> "official" next generation? It seems to me that
> lots of genres would have shields of various
> types, so it's not just Star Trek.
> 
> --- "Izenberg, Noam" <Noam.Izenberg@jhuapl.edu> wrote:
> > In light of David Griffin's search for "Real
> > Shields" and the petering out
> > of WotW #9, Here's # 10 with Damage shields and
> > their ilk:
> > 
> ....
> > Mass/Energy Shield (ME shield)
> > 
> > Trek type shield. System has emitters and 
> > generators.  Generator costs 5%
> > ship mass/level. 
> > Emitters: 360 degree coverage  = 3 mass, 180 = 2
> > mass,  60 = 1 mass. Cost
> > 3/mass
> > 
> > Absorbs damage. Acts as screen against beam weapons
> > (Screen level = shield
> > level/2 round 
> > down). Reduces other damage by shield level for each
> > die of damage. Damage
> > reduction is 
> > for ship itself. Full damage is applied to the
> > shield (e.g. a level 2 ME
> > shield prevents a beam 
> > roll of 4 from damaging the ship, but the shield
> > counts as having taken that
> > point of damage. 

So how many points of damage does a shield have?

> > Similarly, a roll of 6 vs. this shield scores 2
> > points to the hull and 2 vs.
> > the shield total. If a 
> > shield facing receives more damage than its level
> > from a single source
> > (weapon, not ship), 
> > the emitter facing that direction makes a threshold
> > check at current level.
> > 
> 
> 
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