[Spaceships] Combat Examples?

mlangsdorf · 08-19-2013, 06:22 PM

Quoting myself:
"Then the KKC gunners open up, each battery firing a combined salvo of 9 shots against the first two Pathfinders. The port battery starts, rolling a 10 against Artillery-14, +5 for target SM, -6 for the KKC's sAcc, -3 for the 2 mps gun velocity, -2 for ECM, +2 for the RoF bonus for 9 shots, and +4 for proximity fusing. He succeeds by 4, and hits with two shots (the guns have Rcl 4). "

The KKCs did use proximity fuses, but between their crappy sAcc and the terrible Rcl, it didn't help much. And the 4 Pathfinders in formation had 2400 effective RoF from their point defense lasers, coming from 4 sources, so there was a 1/6250000 of getting 4 critical failures and actually getting an E-mag round through the point defenses.

But I see you are right about having to roll separately for every weapon in a turret. I can't imagine why - can anyone from the playtest comment?

08-19-2013, 06:22 PM	#19
mlangsdorf Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Austin, TX	Re: [Spaceships] Combat Examples? Quoting myself: "Then the KKC gunners open up, each battery firing a combined salvo of 9 shots against the first two Pathfinders. The port battery starts, rolling a 10 against Artillery-14, +5 for target SM, -6 for the KKC's sAcc, -3 for the 2 mps gun velocity, -2 for ECM, +2 for the RoF bonus for 9 shots, and +4 for proximity fusing. He succeeds by 4, and hits with two shots (the guns have Rcl 4). " The KKCs did use proximity fuses, but between their crappy sAcc and the terrible Rcl, it didn't help much. And the 4 Pathfinders in formation had 2400 effective RoF from their point defense lasers, coming from 4 sources, so there was a 1/6250000 of getting 4 critical failures and actually getting an E-mag round through the point defenses. But I see you are right about having to roll separately for every weapon in a turret. I can't imagine why - can anyone from the playtest comment? __________________ Read my GURPS blog: http://noschoolgrognard.blogspot.com