Re: Critical hits (was Limits on armour?)

["Grant A. Ladue" <ladue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 To make thresholds less predictable:

	At the end of any turn where a ship takes a hull hit, check to see if
	it takes a threshold check. 

	If the current hull row is destroyed, take the threshold automatically
	as per the current rules.  If not, then roll one die as follows:

          If the current hull row is less than or equal to 1/3 damage, then
	  take a threshold check if roll 6 on the die.

	  If the current hull row is more than 1/3 damaged but less than or
	  equal to 2/3's damaged, then take a threshold check if you roll 
	  5 or 6 on the die.

	  If the current hull row is more than 2/3's damaged, take the 
	  threshold check on a 3, 4, 5, 6 on the die.

	Only one actual threshold check per row.  If damage for the turn 
	finishes one row and starts a another.  Roll for the next row as 
	above.  This may cause a second or more threshold check.

  It would make those easily ignored hits potentially much more painful and
  unpredictable.  This probably enhances the value of shields and any other
  system that prevents hull hits.  Of course, that one point that leaks through
  might kill you.  Rerolls become very important.


  Grant


> 
> On 7/7/06, McCarthy, Tom (xwave) <Tom.McCarthy@xxxxxxxxx> 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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