Re: [FT] Crew quality house rules

On Saturday 18 December 2004 19:49, Laserlight wrote:
> > The main mechanic I've played around with is weapon range - on the
> > thoery that a highly skilled character can target weapons better at
> > longer ranges, increasing their effectiveness. A high skill
therefore
> > gives a reduction to effective range to targets.
>
> You might like Noam's version of Stealth, then.

I haven't seen them, but if it modifies effective range based on
stealth and sensors, then it's similar to mine :-) Mostly inspired
by the ELINT rules in B5 Wars, which I quite liked (so, yes, ships
can share sensor info to an extent, and blind other ships).

> I thought about that, 
> but the issue is that there will be ranges where a good crew can hit
> and a poor crew has "zero chance" (rather than "little chance") of
> hitting back.

Well, a d6 is hardly fine grained, so any 'little chance' details are
lost anyway (moving up to d10s is a little better of course).
Unless the poor crew ship has no engines and can't move, this situation
will probably only last for a round, maybe two, before the ships close
to a range where they can both hit.

On another point - how about a C&C ship giving a bonus to crew quality?
All ships within 12" of C&C ship get one level bonus maybe. Could be
base on quality of commander and/or ELINT quality.

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