RE: Limits on armour? and Full Steam [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Remember there is the optional rule for variable hull size.  If you want
capitals to take crits sooner, change them to 5 hull rows.

Brendan
'Neath Southern Skies
http://home.pacific.net.au/~southernsk/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gzg-request@firedrake.org 
> [mailto:gzg-request@firedrake.org] On Behalf Of Laserlight
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 11:14 AM
> To: gzg@firedrake.org
> Subject: 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.. 
> 
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