Re: [GZG] DS2 Cheese

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about point balance...

It could be the excess cost of Stealth is exactly balanced by the low
cost of improved FCS (1 level = 1 level) but that would be extremely
fortuitous.

Roger

On 8/16/06, John K Lerchey <lerchey@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> Each Stealth level gives you effectively -1 to your target die size.
> Superior FCS is effectively a +2 bonus to firing.
>
> Do the math? ;)
>
> Two levels of Stealth offsets two levels of FCS (Superior).
>
> J
>
> John K. Lerchey
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>
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Roger Books wrote:
>
> > So how many levels of stealth do you need to make up for S-FCS?  I
tend
> to
> > put 1 level of stealth on my size 4 Enh-FC (the majority of my
tanks)
> and 2
> > levels on my size 5 S-FC (the latest and greatest).
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > On 8/16/06, Oerjan Ariander <oerjan.ariander@telia.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Glenn Wilson wrote:
> >>
> >> >Just playing with 'the edges' of DS2 and decided to
> >> >toss out a cheese laden idea for tearing...discussing.
> >> >
> >> >Multiple (beyond 2) weapons per turrets.
> >>
> >> Under the DS2 rules-as-written, this isn't a problem. If you want
to
> fire
> >> more than one of those weapons in a single DS2 game turn they all
need
> to
> >> be of the same type and size and they all have to fire at the same
> target.
> >> The main effect of putting three big guns (eg. HKP/5s or MDC/5s) in
a
> >> single turret is that you increase the odds for drawing a "Systems
> Down:
> >> Firer" chit and knock *your own* vehicle out...
> >>
> >> >Extreme opposite end imagine - if the weapons per
> >> >class rule was dropped with a house rule - 12 Size 1
> >> >HELs (etc) would fit on a class 5 hull!  Buckets of
> >> >dice DS 2 style???
> >>
> >> "Death of a thousand cuts" - though again the biggest effect of
adding
> >> extra gun barrels is that you increase the odds of drawing an SD:F
chit
> >> and
> >> knock *your own* vehicle out :-/
> >>
> >> FWIW one of the "cheesiest" concepts in DS2 is to use Superior FCS
> while
> >> ignoring Stealth: Superior FCS is seriously underpriced, while
Stealth
> is
> >> just as seriously overpriced... Enhanced FCS is underpriced as
well,
> >> though
> >> not quite as badly as Superior :-/
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Oerjan
> >> oerjan.ariander@telia.com
> >>
> >> "Life is like a sewer.
> >>   What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
> >> -Hen3ry
> >>
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