Re: Sa'vasku variants

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 18:33:32 -0500, Tom McCarthy writes:
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[SNIP]

>Each turn, the Sa'vasku ship has a pool of energy and a number of
sensors or 
>fire controls.  The energy is divided between thrust (for acceleration,

>deceleration, and turns), defensive screens, anti-fighter defences
(ADAF), 
>spawning drones (fighters), and attacks (particle beams, graviton
pulses, or 
>buzzcutter beams).  The cost of thrust or screens is proportional to
the 
>ship's size, while ADAF, drones, and attacks are based upon flat costs.
>
>Each turn, consider the available energy points.  Divide them between 
>engines, ADAF, weapons, arming and launching fighters, and screens.  As

>damage is taken each turn, your available energy will drop and points
will 
>disappear from the pools.  Normally, points will disappear from ADAF,
then 
>shooting, then screens.  If ADAF and shooting points have already been 
>expended, then the next pool will lose points.
>
>Each ship control sheet has five pools to allocate the points to each
turn.  
>Thrust is a pentagon.	Attacks is a circle with three posts.  ADAF is a

>diagonally-quartered square.  Screens is a dot with two arcs above. 
Drones 
>is a cluster of 4 circles.
>
>Ship's MASS
>The ship's are broken into power factor (PF) categories by increments
of 10 
>MASS.	Ship's of MASS 1-10, for example, are PF1.  MASSes 21-30 are
PF2.
>

O.k., maybe I'm dense, but how much energy is ACTUALLY generated per
PF?  I see how to figure the ship's PF, but not how this trannslates
into energy.

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