Re: Thoughts on FB .....was Re: Bogey Classes FB

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> Från: Samuel Penn <sam@bifrost.demon.co.uk>
> Till: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Ämne: Re: Thoughts on FB .....was Re: Bogey Classes FB
> Datum:  den 25 maj 1998 12:14
> 
> In message <199805250134.DAA16378@d1o27.telia.com>
>	    "Oerjan Ohlson" <oerjan.ohlson@nacka.mail.telia.com> wrote:
> 
> > Samuel Penn wrote:
> > > Like I said, I've only browsed the FB briefly, so I'm not aware
> > > of _all_ the changes which have been made. I presume you mean
> > > 6's roll up.
> > 
> > Yes. Natural rolls of '6' allow an extra damage die to be rolled,
for
> > certain weapons (beams in particular). This extra die ignores both
> > screens and armour, so it is quite important against heavily
protected
> > units.
> 
> Wow. That's, um, nasty. I'd assumed the roll up would still be
> affected by screens. Can the second die roll up as well?

Yes, keep rolling extra dice until you don't roll a '6'. The average
extra damage inflicted in this way is 2/15 (ie, 0.1333333...) damage
points per beam die, straight through any protection.
 
> Thinking about it though, I quite like it (says he who only
> ever rolls 6's on threshold checks :( ).

You're not the only one :-/ (Uh, no. I *can* roll 6's when I roll for
the
distance my artillery deviates too...)

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@nacka.mail.telia.com

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