[SGII] Nasty Cover

[Mark Donald <mark.donald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

The other day I was watching a video describing military tactics in urban
areas (as you do) and the commentator mentioned that cars were bad cover
because the metal tends to splinter on impact.

It struck me that this idea could be used to create a third type of cover to
sit alongside good ol' soft and hard. My group has just bought a range of
toy cars to decorate our local urban death zone and so the plan is to treat
them as hard cover for purposes of range but to muck about with the armour
shifts to represent the splintering effect. Normally hard cover would shift
armour up 2 levels, so we could try anything from a 1 level shift to
shifting armour down.

We could even leave armour levels alone and shift weapon impact up but I
think it feels more consistent with the idea of splintering to reduce the
protective value of the cover than to increase the penetration of the
weapon.

Anyway, the complexity of another cover type seems to be balanced by the fun
a player might have knowing that it's still worth hiding behind that car but
it might porcupine him if he hangs around too long.

Thoughts? You're going to tell me somebody already came up with this in 1972
aren't you...?

Mark


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