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Re: [FT] Agility, Stealth, and the Fist of Doom

From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@q...>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 00:14:42 -0400
Subject: Re: [FT] Agility, Stealth, and the Fist of Doom

I said:
> >Another approach might be to simulate the target ship's ability to
dodge.
> >Use Noam's "Stealth" mechanism at a -2 level if all fire is coming
at you
> >from one arc; at -1 if all fire is coming through two arcs; and at
normal
> >range bands if fire is coming from 3 or more arcs.
>

RBW quibbled:
> So I have HMS Getthebastards and HMS Unnecessaryviolence shooting
from
> your FP arc, and HMS Popcorn shooting from your AS arc.
Getthebastards
> fires first at the -1 level; you return fire and demolish Popcorn
> before it can fire. Is the -1 changed to a -2 retroactively? What
about
> Unnecessaryviolence's fire?

Another way to do this is to plot your Stealth/Dodge after movement
but before any firing takes place.  In that case, I might order -2
against the FP arc, and not worry about fire from AS

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