Re: [GZG] DS2 Cheese

[John K Lerchey <lerchey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Each Stealth level gives you effectively -1 to your target die size.
Superior FCS is effectively a +2 bonus to firing.

Do the math? ;)

Two levels of Stealth offsets two levels of FCS (Superior).

J

John K. Lerchey
Assistant Director for Incident Response
Information Security Office
Carnegie Mellon University

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Roger Books wrote:

> So how many levels of stealth do you need to make up for S-FCS?  I tend to
> put 1 level of stealth on my size 4 Enh-FC (the majority of my tanks) and 2
> levels on my size 5 S-FC (the latest and greatest).
>
> Roger
>
> On 8/16/06, Oerjan Ariander <oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Glenn Wilson wrote:
> >
> > >Just playing with 'the edges' of DS2 and decided to
> > >toss out a cheese laden idea for tearing...discussing.
> > >
> > >Multiple (beyond 2) weapons per turrets.
> >
> > Under the DS2 rules-as-written, this isn't a problem. If you want to fire
> > more than one of those weapons in a single DS2 game turn they all need to
> > be of the same type and size and they all have to fire at the same target.
> > The main effect of putting three big guns (eg. HKP/5s or MDC/5s) in a
> > single turret is that you increase the odds for drawing a "Systems Down:
> > Firer" chit and knock *your own* vehicle out...
> >
> > >Extreme opposite end imagine - if the weapons per
> > >class rule was dropped with a house rule - 12 Size 1
> > >HELs (etc) would fit on a class 5 hull!  Buckets of
> > >dice DS 2 style???
> >
> > "Death of a thousand cuts" - though again the biggest effect of adding
> > extra gun barrels is that you increase the odds of drawing an SD:F chit
> > and
> > knock *your own* vehicle out :-/
> >
> > FWIW one of the "cheesiest" concepts in DS2 is to use Superior FCS while
> > ignoring Stealth: Superior FCS is seriously underpriced, while Stealth is
> > just as seriously overpriced... Enhanced FCS is underpriced as well,
> > though
> > not quite as badly as Superior :-/
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Oerjan
> > oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> > "Life is like a sewer.
> >   What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
> > -Hen3ry
> >
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