Re: Cover in Dirtside II

On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Rick Rutherford wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I played Dirtside II last week with a couple of people who hadn't
played
> before, and one of them came up with an interesting question:
> Why don't smaller vehicles get better protection than larger vehicles
> from being in cover?
> 
> I assumed that the "add a d6 defense die for soft cover, and a d8 for
> hard cover" rule was made for the sake of keeping it simple, but it
got me
> thinking: why not use the size of the vehicle to determine the size of
the
> defense die given? If you ignore the effects of stealth systems, then
> the defense die of the vehicle would look like this:
> 
> Vehicle		Defense Die	Defense Die
> Size		Soft Cover	Hard Cover
> ------------------------------------------
> Very Small	d12		d12
> Small 	d10		d12
> Medium		d8		d10
> Large 	d6		d8
> Very Large	d4		d6
> 
> I don't remember if this has been discussed here before -- what do you
> think?
> 
> --
> Rick Rutherford ----- rickr@digex.net ----- The above opinions are
mine.
> "I've seen collisions on fire off the side of the ethernet LAN. 
> I've seen the lights on the CSU/DSU glitter in the dark near the
router. 
> All these things will be lost in time, like dropped packets. Time to
die."
> 
> 
This sounds good - varied cover by size of vehicles is something that
occured to me, but I never have done anything with it - and now I've
been
saved the trouble. I'll try them out when I next play, which won't be
for
a couple of weeks, and let you know how the rules work.

Brian (burger00@camosun.bc.ca)