An idea for Svasku

3 posts ยท Sep 3 1996 to Sep 4 1996

From: Rick Rutherford <rickr@s...>

Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 07:38:56 -0400

Subject: Re: An idea for Svasku

> On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Simon Campbell-Smith wrote:

> One thought that drift across my mind was that Svasku ships are bio

> its opponent this takes up the whole of the fire phase.

Neat idea, but what about the relative velocities of the two ships? If both
ships are travelling at speed 10 directly toward each other, I would think
that the enemy ship would punch a hole through the Savaksu ship if it tried to
eat the enemy ship! Wouldn't it make more sense to use part of the boarding
rules, i.e. the two ships have to be within 1" velocity of each other, and
they have to be within 1 point heading of each other.

From: SimonC@d... (Simon Campbell-Smith)

Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 08:10:56 -0400

Subject: An idea for Svasku

One thought that drift across my mind was that Svasku ships are bio therefore
they have to eat. What better than an opposing ships! The svasku ship moves to
within 3 inches of it victim. The other vesel can be
a maximun of 1/3 the mass of the Svasku  ship. It then 'tractor beams'

its opponent this takes up the wqhole of the fire phase. This contest is

decided by rolling a d6 + the thrust of the target vessel against a d6 +

the target vessels mass /0. This is repeated each turn  during the
fighter/missile movement until the trapped vessel escapes moving at
maximum acceleration away from the svasku or it is eaten up. The svasku

vessel does  svasku ships mass/20 D6.(Round Down minimum of 1)

An example:

A kravak frigate mass 10 is captured by a Svasku ship Mass 41

Turn 1 no damage is done to the Kravak due to it being the turn that he

was tractored

Turn 2 The kravak fails to break free. The Svaku roles 2d6 doing only 4

points of damage!

Turn 3 The Kravak fails again and is promptly digested

Well taking my inability to type well try this out and Bon appitie (No I

know I can't speel in French either)

From: SimonC@d... (Simon Campbell-Smith)

Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 00:07:27 -0400

Subject: RE: An idea for Svasku

Remember the target ship is only on a fraction the size. I also feel it

should use as many energy points  as the target ships mass + speed.

I really want to keep these rules KISS.(Keep it Simple Stupid)

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> On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Simon Campbell-Smith wrote:

> One thought that drift across my mind was that Svasku ships are bio

be
> a maximun of 1/3 the mass of the Svasku ship. It then 'tractor beams'

> its opponent this takes up the whole of the fire phase.

Neat idea, but what about the relative velocities of the two ships? If both
ships are travelling at speed 10 directly toward each other, I would think
that the enemy ship would punch a hole through the Savaksu ship if it tried to
eat the enemy ship! Wouldn't it make more sense to use part of the boarding
rules, i.e. the two ships have to be within 1" velocity of each other, and
they have to be within 1 point heading of each other.