Re: [GZG] More advanced screens

I would say no, because there aren't any weapons with AP effects
attested in the book. Also, every ship in the CoD universe uses the
Langston Field as its defense; there'd be no reason for anything other
than AP weapons if one was invented. The Field absorbs all kinds of
energy-- including kinetic, proportional to the (cube? fourth power?)
of the incoming energy. In the book, burn-throughs seem to happen
mostly from torpedoes, whereas most of the energy you pump into the
Field comes from the laser batteries.

That's why I like threshold checks for modeling burn-throughs.

Rob

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:18 AM, john tailby <John_Tailby@xtra.co.nz>
wrote:
> But don't semi AP and AP weapons simulate the local burn through
perfectly?
> A beam weapon burns through and the reroll does damage directly to
hull as
> do plasma torpedoes and K guns.
>
> So 2 ways to beat a langstrom field roll massed dice to overload it or
use
> AP weapons to bypass it.

-- 
Robert Mayberry

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