GURPS Star Trekking - Help? Assistance?

[Witchking]

Originally Posted by Qoltar

Would love to do it all as "GURPSy" as possible. -Ed C.

Cruiser Big Destroyer Small.

Most flavors of Star Trek for transporters (the most common boarding avenue) to work on a ship that ships shields must be down.

A small Destroyer with shields down is incredibly easier for a bigger Cruiser to destroy. The only 'saving' grace is that the Cruiser might have a reason to capture.

However once the Cruiser has boarding parties aboard the Destroyer they are 70+% of the way to that capture in most normal scenarios.

If the GM plans for the Calvary to 'come over the hill' great.

If the GM has 'legendary' marines aboard the destroyer great.

I was just noting that even having a plan it would be good to have a backup plan (and possibly liberal dice fudging in the parties favor) since as described it sounds like a 'challenging encounter'.

Edit: WW2 which was a common experience for most of the writers/creators of TOS...US Destroyer average crew appx 110 men US Cruiser 1100.