RE: Critical hits (was Limits on armour?)

Personally, I find the second threshold check to be huge.  Many ships
are still nasty combatants until that 2nd threshold check.  And then,
suddenly, they become almost toothless.

And that's why I find ships with lots of armour and screens really
annoying.  Against standard beams, you might have to throw huge amounts
of dice to force that second threshold check.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: awgoodall@gmail.com [mailto:awgoodall@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
Allan
> Goodall
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 2:18 PM
> To: gzg@firedrake.org
> Subject: Re: Critical hits (was Limits on armour?)
> 
> On 7/7/06, McCarthy, Tom (xwave) <Tom.McCarthy@xwave.com> wrote:
> >
> > In FT, checking systems at the end of a row of hull boxes is a
simple
> > mechanism for attrition of systems.
> 
> I like attrition. I'm just not crazy about the lack of granularity in
> the FT system. The ship is perfectly okay up through the point where
> there is one hull point left on that hull row line... then things fall
> apart with one damage point suffered.
> 
> That having been said, the cure is far worse than the disease from
> what I've seen.
> 
> Oh, and the Command and Colors games (Memoir 44, Battle Cry, Command &
> Colors: Ancients) has an even more severe lack of granularity. An
> infantry unit has 4 figures. It is 100% effective until it loses the
> last figure, then it disappears. And yet this system is my favourite
> board game system. Go figure.
> 
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