Re: [FT] Who said Nova cannon's were unbalanced?

Beth don't you know ANYTHING? It's unbalanced because we were told it
was in
More Thrust! (Or was it FB?)

Los <grin>

Beth Fulton wrote:

> G'day guys,
>
> I'm in the mood for a good argu... err discussion <g> and so I've
decided
> to ask a question that's been bugging me for ages. Why do you guys
think
> the wave gun and nova cannon are unbalanced (as evidenced by the
reactions
> to the initial UNSC SDN design)? Under the FB designs they're no super
> weapon, they're regularly used down here and I've only seen them do
> devastating damage once and that was because the target got cocky (my
son
> had the wave gun ship fully charged, but his opponent was so sure he'd
take
> it out through damage causing threshold checks he ended his fleet 2 "
away
> straight in front in a nice big line and then rolled a lot of 1s and
2s
> much to his horror). Given the fact you can't fire any other weapon
system
> that turn either then you may as well use large beams/p-torps (or if
using
> EFSB stuff as well, heavy beams) as you'll more often than not do more
> damage that way. The rules for theses two "big" guns were written
pre-FB
> when ships were a lot smaller, now we regularly see ships hit the
board
> with masses >100. I'd even go so far to suggest that to make them
useful
> (and to give them back some of their reputation) under FB I'd double
their
> radii of effect or give them twice the dice, I'd also drop the
requirement
> that says Nova Cannons can only be carried by capitals (though that's
less
> to do with balance and more to do with the fact I don't see it as an
> important distinction anymore).
>
> Any way there's a few cents worth to rattle a few cages... been
decidely
> too quiet around here for my liking anyway ;)
>
> Have fun
>
> Beth
>
>
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