Re: RE: RE: Limits on armour? and Full Steam

> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 laserlight@verizon.net wrote:
>>
>> I'd still like some kind of critical hit which doesn't require
chewing 
>> through all the hull. Just off the top of my head, let's say that if
an 
>> individual attack does 6+ points of damage, you roll onthe crit table
for 
>> that ship. Results might be "lose all portside weapons for 1 turn" or

>> "lose 1 Thrust until repaired" or "steering problem, must turn
starboard 
>> until repaired" or such.

JohnL said:
> Sounds like a threshold check based on total accumulated damage,
rather 
> than being based on hull rows destroyed..

Well, not exactly--I'm suggesting that if an individual weapon scores 6 
damage in one attack, it gets a crit 9or a chance to crit). For beams,
that 
would be an individual die getting two rerolls of 6, so you could still
roll 
a handful of dice for the beam weapons without having to keep track of 
"these three are from this weapon, those two from that one".
You could lay out the table so that you get a +DRM for each hull row
you've 
destroyed, making it more likely that you'll get a crit, or a more
devasting 
crit, after you've scraped off more layers of hull..