Some questions on Spaceships

Stormcrow · 06-26-2019, 07:31 PM

The batteries on the Starhawk are fixed mounts. It's got one missile system and four X-ray laser systems. The gunnery task lets you choose "a single turret weapon; a single spinal weapon; all identical fixed mount weapons in a major, medium, secondary, or tertiary battery." So you can take a single gunnery task to fire all four of the Starhawk's X-ray lasers simultaneously.

But you can't multitask at all with gunnery. "A single character may never perform more than one gunnery task per turn (with the exception of spreading fire)."

As for tying together all the turrets in a battery, or all the turrets in every battery, why not? Spaceships doesn't expect you to take its rules so rigidly that you can't make them conform to your ideas. If tying together turrets is a thing you can do in your setting, then do it.

06-26-2019, 07:31 PM	#11
Stormcrow Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Ronkonkoma, NY	Re: Some questions on Spaceships The batteries on the Starhawk are fixed mounts. It's got one missile system and four X-ray laser systems. The gunnery task lets you choose "a single turret weapon; a single spinal weapon; all identical fixed mount weapons in a major, medium, secondary, or tertiary battery." So you can take a single gunnery task to fire all four of the Starhawk's X-ray lasers simultaneously. But you can't multitask at all with gunnery. "A single character may never perform more than one gunnery task per turn (with the exception of spreading fire)." As for tying together all the turrets in a battery, or all the turrets in every battery, why not? Spaceships doesn't expect you to take its rules so rigidly that you can't make them conform to your ideas. If tying together turrets is a thing you can do in your setting, then do it.