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Old 04-18-2018, 05:03 PM   #84
Michael Thayne
 
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Default Re: [Spaceships] Missile shield vs. ramming: two questions

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Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
No. The multiple hits rule is messy and could do with editing, but the basic idea is that a success by 10 on a RoF 300 weapon is probably not actually 10 hits, but we don't want to roll damage 50-100 times.

Assuming the salvo has enough RoF, a hit by 10, instead of meaning you roll damage 10 times, lets you roll damage once and shift wounding by 10 columns (from /30 to x1.5).
Err, what I originally wrote was definitely wrong, but I was wondering about this sentence: "you can resolve multiple hits in a single roll by just adding (2 + RSM for number of hits) to WM." I figured to be guaranteed destroying it (4200 points of damage), you'd want to shift the WM to x1/2, which is shifting the WM by 7 categories. Which means you want an "RSM number" of 5 (2 + 5 = 7), so 10 hits? Possibly this rule is mainly only useful for resolving big rapid-fire attacks.
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