Re: Oddball Kra'vak armour vs. railgun notion

On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Tom McCarthy wrote:

> I had an idea for Kra'vak armour, and some of you may like it.  It's 
> inspired by a very different game system.
> 
> The attacker rolls 6 dice, and 3 hit, each hit possibly causing a 
> point of damage.  But the armour is level 2.	For each point of 
> damage, the defender picks up 2 dice and rolls; each 4, 5 or 6 
> eliminates a point of damage.
> In this example, 6 dice roll and 3 damage are blocked (on an average 
> roll).
> 
Tom, 

Neat Idea, but too many die rolls - say 10 ship total battle - thats a
lot
of d6 rolls. We need a system that will not slow down playspeed..

SA

			       Steven Arrowsmith
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