Re: [Power Projection] Review

On Sunday, May 11, 2003, at 17:25 Europe/London, devans@nebraska.edu 
wrote:

> I bought PP:E with the full understanding that it might be a subset
> conpletely contained in PP:F, so conventional wisdom would be I might 
> have
> just as well waited for Fleet, but I'm not sure I'm so much a fan of
> boarding rules or mystic dingus's (as I recall, BG's are ancient 
> artifacts)
> that I will be needing the larger product.
>
> Everyone else should probably wait for Dominic's reply to the earlier
> question.

BGs are the one area we are still debating (as Andy is laying it out). 
They are horribly complex to handle, especially as adopting the FT 
combat engine merges the to-hit roll with the damage roll. I've now got 
a very cleaned up conversion of HG2 into PP:F (and the HG2 has gaps you 
can drive a supertanker through that I've had to plug) but my own 
opinon is that they're only worth using for strategic surprise (as a 
cloaking device). Why? Because nuclear missiles will rapidly kill a big 
BG equipped ship by overloading it rapidly (which you could do in HG2 
as well).

Cheers,

Dom

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