RE: SG2: Aerospace Morale House Rule

The pg 48 rules is really meant for craft in High mode (fighters & fast
travelling vtols).  The situation you discribe is a Low Mode situation,
where you treat it as any other vehicle (stupid airheads...) where the
pilot
can dodge; if he wishes to...

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allan Goodall [SMTP:agoodall@interlog.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 12:17 PM
> 
> >Just back tracking here a moment.....if teh NSL player is firing a
> missile
> >on table then the rules simply require the VTOL to immediately make
an
> >evasion move (I forget teh exact distance....) but he certainly isn't
> >required to leave the table....the Abort action you are referring to
is
> for
> >a VTOL wishing to ENTER the table but fails his Confidence Roll....
> 
> Nope, that's not what I'm talking about.
> 
> First, the VTOL isn't required to make an evasion roll. He CAN evade
the
> missile, but so doing counts as his activation (and I'm inferring from
> this
> that if the unit has already been activated, he can't do this).
> 
> This is after the missile hits, but it does not penetrate. On page 48
it
> says,
> "If a hit is scored, roll its effect as for any anti-vehicle fire
(using
> the
> aircraft's Armour Rating) and read the results as follows: any result
less
> than a DISABLE forces the pilot to take a CONFIDENCE TEST at a threat
> level of
> +2 - if he fails this test he must abort his mission and leave the
table."
> 
> The person I was playtesting this with agreed with me that this seems
kind
> of
> all or nothing. A VTOL transport making a critical pick up is plinked
by
> the
> first GMS/P fired at it and if it fails the confidence test (if the
VTOL
> is
> piloted by a Reg 2, the chance is 50%, a Vet 1 is still 30%) the VTOL
> scampers
> off. In my house rules there would still be this possibility (25% for
the
> Reg
> 2, 10% for the Vet 1), but even if that happens he can still show up
later
> from the loiter box if the shaken pilot can make a Reaction Test.
> 
> As I said, it's a house rule. It just adds a little morale colour to
> pilots
> while giving them a little more staying power on the battlefield.
> 
> 
> Allan Goodall 		 agoodall@interlog.com
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> 
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