RE: [FT] Houserules for bringing MT missiles into FB

My personal preference is that any missiles used in an antimissile role
roll 1 PDS dice per missile used; so a full SML salvo in antimissile
mode would roll 6 PDS die against the target.  Against MT missiles, a
kill is 98% effective, but you've also expended a potential 36 pts of
damage.  Against another SML salvo, it's resolved as normal, but
antimissile PDS is rolled before you see how many missiles are on
target.

eg. SML antimissiles attack an SML antiship salvo.  6 SML PDS results in
4 kills, the antiship salvo then rolls it's d6 to see how many missiles
are on target after ship PDS is allocated; it rolls a 3.  Since there
are only 2 missiles left, that is the maximum number that can attack.
Ship PDS is then resolved, killing the last 2 missiles.

The main effect of this is to reduce the maximum number of missiles
incoming.

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-----Original Message-----
From:	Sean Bayan Schoonmaker [SMTP:schoon@aimnet.com]
Sent:	Thursday, March 11, 1999 10:24 AM

>To resolve this attack roll D6 1 for the number of missiles on target,
if
>the final score is less than one then there are no missiles on target
and
>it's a clean miss. If there are missiles on target roll a D6 and add
the
>number of missiles to the score rolled, if the final result is 6 or
greater
>then the target missile is destroyed.

I don't understand this. I THINK it says roll 1d6-1 for each attecking
missile, and then add a d6 roll. If the result is >6 then you killed it.

It seems needlessly complicated. An alternate might be to simply say
that
an SML on target for a missile destroys that one missile. It's going to
be
difficult enough to employ this effectively, why add more uncertainty
with
lots of dice. Unless, of course, you're just trying to make sure that no
one tries it.

Schoon