Spaceships - Defensive Munitions

jacobmuller · 12-28-2009, 03:58 PM

Yes, the ECCM rules make ECM for smallcraft pretty pointless. Sticking in a system that allows some other kind of defense appeals.

Just realising, though, if I treat it like ECM for missiles, why is it armour v's beams... I guess the skeet-gun effect fits that best: launched "sand", diffuses beams and ravages incoming ballistics. Must be why it's used in Traveller. Or I could just, as you say, give a bonus to Dodge.

I think the basic Traveller sandcaster is a close match for an SM+7 Medium Battery and was going to scale it all from there.

12-28-2009, 03:58 PM	#3
jacobmuller Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Not in your time zone:D	Re: Spaceships - Defensive Munitions Yes, the ECCM rules make ECM for smallcraft pretty pointless. Sticking in a system that allows some other kind of defense appeals. Just realising, though, if I treat it like ECM for missiles, why is it armour v's beams... I guess the skeet-gun effect fits that best: launched "sand", diffuses beams and ravages incoming ballistics. Must be why it's used in Traveller. Or I could just, as you say, give a bonus to Dodge. I think the basic Traveller sandcaster is a close match for an SM+7 Medium Battery and was going to scale it all from there. __________________ "Sanity is a bourgeois meme." Exegeek PS sorry I'm a Parthian shootist: shiftwork + out of country = not here when you are:/ It's all in the reflexes