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RE: [SG2} Aerospace Rules "Bug". Suggestions?

From: "Robertson, Brendan" <Brendan.Robertson@d...>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:30:33 +1000
Subject: RE: [SG2} Aerospace Rules "Bug". Suggestions?

On Friday, September 20, 2002 1:08 AM, Allan Goodall
[SMTP:agoodall@att.net]
wrote:
> Going over the aerospace rules in SG2, I found a "bug".
> 
> When you make an ADE versus ECM roll, if the ADE succeeds the
aircraft's
pilot
> must make a Reaction Test or abort the mission. If he does not abort
the
> mission, the ADE is rolled versus the aircraft's armour.
> 
> Uh... which armour? Front, or side? As with other vehicles in SG2, the
armour
> can be different in the front and sides.
> 
> Any suggestions? I can think of three ways of doing it: front always,
side
> always, or some random determination. 
> 
> Since ADE is pretty wimpy, particularly with the new official way of
doing
> armour rolls (roll number of D12s equal to armour class, instead of
rolling
> one D12 and multiplying it by the armour class), I thought of always
using
the
> side armour. After all, it's Air Defence. The aircraft is passing over
it
or
> past it on the way inbound to a target.
> 
> Any thoughts?

>From memory, it does say somewhere in the DS rules that it's against
the
bottom armour; which on an aircraft is the same as it's front armour.

Brendan

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