Re: RE: RE: Limits on armour? and Full Steam

["Laserlight" <laserlight@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 laserlight@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I'd still like some kind of critical hit which doesn't require chewing 
> > through all the hull. Just off the top of my head, let's say that if an 
> > individual attack does 6+ points of damage, you roll onthe crit table for 
> > that ship. Results might be "lose all portside weapons for 1 turn" or 
> > "lose 1 Thrust until repaired" or "steering problem, must turn starboard 
> > until repaired" or such.

JohnL said:
> Sounds like a threshold check based on total accumulated damage, rather 
> than being based on hull rows destroyed..

Well, not exactly--I'm suggesting that if an individual weapon scores 6 
damage in one attack, it gets a crit 9or a chance to crit). For beams, that 
would be an individual die getting two rerolls of 6, so you could still roll 
a handful of dice for the beam weapons without having to keep track of 
"these three are from this weapon, those two from that one".
You could lay out the table so that you get a +DRM for each hull row you've 
destroyed, making it more likely that you'll get a crit, or a more devasting 
crit, after you've scraped off more layers of hull..