All the Beam Weapons section mention are the arcs of fire, nothing mentioning
Aft or any other name for other arcs. Most of us know what Aft means, but
rules that are introductory should not be so assuming. Or, do not mention Aft
and let people fire in any direction they want whether they used thrust points
or not.
I think it should mention that a fractional part of an inch of a range should
be rounded up. Example: 12.3" is rounded to 13".
When sample SSDs are added its going to be two pages anyway.
Should any other system descriptions be added? IMO, systems that are common to
most human SSDs: FTL drive, PDS (doesn't have to say HOW it works against
fighters and missiles, just that it is the PDS' primary purpose), Armor
(should give some defense specifics besides Hull).
Are these rules the basis of any "real" FT Lite rules that GZG might put out?
Glen
> bail9672@bellsouth.net wrote:
No room for a glossary. I assume that people will get these rules either
because a FT player hands it to them (in which case they have a FT player
handy), or because Jon includes it in a pack of FT ship minis (if they're
buying ships, they'll likely know what 'aft' means).
> Or, do not mention Aft and let people fire in any direction they want
I think "no aft fire" is a key aspect of FT tactics.
> When sample SSDs are added it's going to be two pages anyway.
It's going to have all the *rules* on one page, though.
> Should any other system descriptions be added?
First off, this is FT LITE, not FT. Second, I wouldn't add a system that
doesn't have any use in this context (FTL, PDS). I don't think armor adds
enough difference to bother with. If I were going to add something, it would
be PTorps.
> Are these rules the basis of any "real" FT Lite rules that GZG might
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Jon gave his approval and they're
copyright GZG, not me. They're not ready for distribution to the masses
until Adrian or someone fixes the graphics and (and makes an A4-size),
but I'd imagine they'll be on gzg.com eventually.
> Glen wrote:
> I think it should mention that a fractional part of an inch of a range
Why? It was my impression that ranges aren't rounded. It's either 12.3" or
it's not. Since a beam has range bands of 12", 12.3" would be in the second
range band. (This may have to do with group etiquette. Some groups will look
at 12.3" and say, "close enough, we'll let you fire at 12 inches" and some
won't.)
I don't believe the rule book mentions anything about rounding up, does
it?.
> I don't believe the rule book mentions anything about rounding up, does
For once, I have the books handy. So far, nothing. Pretty much seems to say
that range bands are 'absolute'.
However, this brings up a bugaboo I've had with the first book, and don't
think it got address further on. I can only find movement/course change
examples with even speeds. That doesn't give examples of how you divide the
distance move, and I can't find in any of the rules where it's explained.
You can REALLY load something with extraneous rules to try to make every
occurance covered, and end up with an SFB, which daunts by size. However,
using 9 mu instead of 10 mu speed in an example takes up no more room, and
covers possible confusion.
If we've been over this before, my apologies.
The_Beast
> Doug wrote:
> You can REALLY load something with extraneous rules to try to make
However,
> using 9 mu instead of 10 mu speed in an example takes up no more room,
Yes, an example with odd numbers would be a good idea.
For the record, I thought the official answer was that you don't round. If
you're going at a speed of 9 mu, you move 4.5 mu in the first half of the
movement, and 4.5 mu in the second half of the movement.
So, in a way the rules are quite clear: you divide the distance in half. All
the rule book really needs are for all the examples to be in odd numbers to
reinforce this.
--- agoodall@att.
> For the record, I thought the official answer was
Some folks just didn't care; We allowed players
to move, equal halves, odd/even, or even/odd.
It had no major effect on the game and allowed for some player choice.
Bye for now,