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Old 02-09-2019, 07:37 PM   #39
Fred Brackin
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Default Re: [Spaceships] How does large-scale space warfare play out (without superscience)?

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Originally Posted by Michael Thayne View Post
Fred's approach seems to be right for fixed mounts but not turrets. P. 53 says, "A gunnery task allows a character to control one of the following: a single turret weapon; a single spinal weapon; all identical fixed mount weapons in a major, medium, secondary, or tertiary battery." And p. 57 says, "All identical fixed mount weapons in the same battery may be fired simultaneously – multiply RoF by number of fixed mounts."
<shrug> I don't know what it would do for Utzgoroth's faith but if something had been done to "fix" the above passage it almost certainly would have been to remove the words "fixed mount". It certainly wouldn't have been to roll 30 times for every turret in a Tertiary battery.
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