FT-EMP/NEEDLE WEAPONS

This is just a VERY rough idea at the moment, feedback would be useful.

Reading the WOTW archives, and the lack of agreement on using needle or
EMP
weapons, I thought about nicking a idea from the starfire game. We could
have at the bottom of the SSD a text list of all the weapons/systems
aboard
the ship (using a standard notation), and have these weapons hit one at
random (IE-The attacker says the needle beam will hit the 3rd system,
although he doesn`t know what it is). Every ship can be different
(within
reason, to be determinded what the limits are), after all, no 2 ships
are
identical. A attacker may look at the list if he can get within scanner
range (to be determinded what the range is for the different sensors,
also
makes advanced sensors a battlefield weapon useful in the game) and
suceeded
at a die roll. Once a scan has been performed, the list and order of
that
ships systems are avalible to the attackers fleet until said ship goes
in
for repairs/refit at a shipyard (to represent the ship having been
recorded
and identifiable) as long as one of the attackers ships can pass said
info
back to the HQ (IE-suvives).

Any comments?