Re: Near Future Rules Draft is up!

At 10:33 PM 2/24/97 -0600, you wrote:
>On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Alan Brain wrote:
>
>
>	Will do, I also want to add the concept of reaction mass (i.e.
fuel).

How about:  rate fuel in points per mass.  make this high (20-40?) or
ships
won't have enough fuel	to really manuever....
>
>	I'm tempted to dump my B5 rules (What's the point? JT's rules
are
>coming out soon, and I am really dissapointed in them.) and incoporate
the
>EW rules into this system. 

Whats the point?!?  I am still looking for the best b5 rules right now! 
I
would like to see more ships for your version. 

>
>	While I am on the subject of these near future rules, I want to 
>bring up another idea I am having trouble with:  AUTOCANNON AMMO 
>EXPLOSIONS!  IMHO, if an autocannon takes a hit, their is a chance that

>any remaining ammo will cap off and do further damage to the ship.  I
have 
>to techniques:
>	1. The Catastrophic Method:  When an autocannon is damaged in a 
>threshold roll (except those caused by EMP weapons) roll a seperate d6 
>and if the result is a 6 then the ammo in the magazine goes (in the 
>immortal words of Commander Susan Ivanova) "BOOM!"  Multiply the amount
of 
>ammo left by the rating of the cannon.  This is the amount of damage
you 
>take.	Yes Virgina, you can completely destroy a ship this way.  The
near 
>future is a dangerous place for space combat.
>	2. The Not-So-Catastrophic Method:  The same as above.	Except 
>you don't multiply the number of ammo by the level of the cannon.  Just

>mark off damage equal to the amount of ammo in the magazine.  
>
>	Any opinions either way?
>
>Later,
>Mark A. Siefert
>	
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>

Method #2 dosn't sound too bad.

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