Re: Four years without thrust

Dom Mooney said:
>
> On 11 Jul 2004, at 22:34, Laserlight wrote:
>
>>> Definitely looks interesting (though the cloaking units in MT were
>>> always a pain to use).
>>
>> The way Noam envisioned it was not as cloaking, but as effectively
>> reducing the firer's range bands.

I think I used something like that for one of my B5 conversions.
Much prefer this to the MT cloaking rules.

> That's basically how we handled it in Power Projection. Sensor
> degradation is modeled by increasing the effective line of sight of a
> target, so pushing it out of range if it's bad enough. It's a very
> quick and effective mechanic that avoids a load of complexity by
having
> things like targeting and sensor lock rolls...

Yep, the nuke and sandcaster rules in PP were quite good.

No reason something similar couldn't be done with ECM pods
as a form of stealth technology (stick down a salvo of ECM
'bursts' which shield the ship from attacks).

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