[Spaceships] Combat Examples?

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by mlangsdorf

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.

Quite, sorry. I specifically looked for that and missed it.

I think it's really silly to give guns rcl 4 with proximity rounds (or at all really) but it does seem to be by-the-book. Your alternate treatment (the one you threatened for missiles) might actually be helpful to the guns here...if you treated it as an x9 shotshell it would get better rcl.

Originally Posted by mlangsdorf

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?

Not on the playtest, but I'd think it's kind of obvious...each of those guns is fired by a separate character. Spaceships actions are almost all performed by individuals, not vague aggregates.

Of course, this makes the Pathfinders' PD a bit harder too. Probably not enough to matter.