RE: [FT] DamCon Parties

K'rt wrote:

>Heh,  I was also perplexed by the placement of DCPs on the first row.
>Their sole purpose has GOT to be to hit the alarm on their way to the
>great hereafter. <G>

FB page 8 says:

"For simplicity, it is assumed that crew casualties run proportional to
the
amount of hull damage suffered by the ship; as damage is taken and crew
casualties are suffered, CFs are lost and the available DCPs are reduced
accordingly. To record this on the Ship Diagram, dots are placed in
certain
boxes on the Damage Track to denote the points at which Crew Factors are
lost; a
ships current CF (and thus its current number of DCPa) is the number of
dots
still remaining in non-destroyed boxes on the damage track."

Thus the * in the SSD's are not DC's but CF's, you get so many DC's for
the
number
of CF's you have - it just happens to be 1:1 for military ships.

What are the CF's killed proportion of DCP's, doing before the ship gets
damaged?
Who knows its an abstraction? Probably killed while getting to their
damage
stations
by hull spliters or decompression etc.

>It is for this reason that I am VERY much in favor of treating DCPs as
>Core Systems.	They can stay alive until the last box is damage is
>crossed off or they can all get killed in their bunks before getting a
>chance to sling their toolbelts.  All down to the fickle die-roll.

I prefer the cannonical system as its simple and gives a good
abstraction for the background YMMV.

-= tim jones =-