From: Roger Books <books@m...>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 16:54:48 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Repair hull/armour?
Can damage control parties repair hull and/or armour? We were just discussing Trek style ships, and repairing armour would be a good simulation of shields, then the discussion turned to the fact that I don't remember seeing a rule about not repairing hull/armour.
From: Andrew Martin <Al.Bri@x...>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:17:07 +1200
Subject: Re: Repair hull/armour?
> Roger wrote: And the masked Mk replied: > Nope. Page 6 of More Thrust: "...Note that Damage Control parties may > Roger wrote: Shield/armour would be interesting. It only appears at "RED" alert status. Perhaps using critical hit rolls to regenerate one box at a time, and maybe vanishing if/when the power core fails.
From: Indy Kochte <kochte@s...>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:02:25 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Repair hull/armour?
> Can damage control parties repair hull and/or armour? Nope. Page 6 of More Thrust: "...Note that Damage Control parties may NOT attempt to repair structural hull damage..." I believe this is intended to extend to armour, also. Mk
From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:33:04 +1000
Subject: Re: Repair hull/armour?
G'day Roger, > Can damage control parties repair hull and/or armour? As you know by now, not officially, but (there's always a but) my son Lachy picked up his first FT fleet when we were on holidays - the Sa'Vasku however we all agreed the book keeping they normally involve is a beyond him at 5 so we gave them more 'standard' stats (bear with me this getting somewhere). Anyway he still wanted them to have an alien feel so we upped the cost of his hull to 2x and said that he can attempt to repair one hull box a turn, in the damage control phase, just as if the hull box was a normal system. I think somebody somewhere did something similar in an FT conversion of EFSB or B5 wars or something. Might give you some food for thought at least. Cheers Beth
From: Robertson, Brendan <Brendan.Robertson@d...>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 10:21:13 +1000
Subject: RE: Repair hull/armour?
One viable option for this which I mentioned previously (there's several different takes on this): FTFB armour is treated as the ship's shields. Screen generators don't affect beam fire, but regenerate the shields at 1 point per generator. One thing about this is you can keep the trek feel of it (Shields down to 20%, captain, and the engine room is offline!). The only problem is how to use ablative armour (the USS Defiant has changed some of the ST ship rules) 'Neath Southern Skies - http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~denian/ > -----Original Message-----