SV: [FT] Jump Limits

3 posts ยท Sep 10 1999 to Sep 11 1999

From: Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@t...>

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 22:14:19 +0200

Subject: SV: [FT] Jump Limits

> Channing Faunce wrote:

> How about when the gravitation of a body (the Sun for instance)
reaches
> a minimum.

Strictly speaking, the gravitic field from a single body never *does* reach a
minimum. It creeps ever closer to zero the further out you get... to be a true
minimum, it'd have to increase again on the other
side :-/ I know what you mean, though.

Setting a specific maximum allowed strength for the gravitic field is exactly
what all the SF authors using "hyper limits" near stars and planets do.

> Perhaps .01 G? For those of you a bit more mathamatically

~115 000 000 km (0.77 AU, just outside the orbit of Venus) (assuming I
got the figures right :-/ )

> The Earth?

~ 200 000 km (slightly beyond half-way to the moon)

> Jupiter?

~ 3 600 000 km

Regards,

From: Donald Hosford <hosford.donald@a...>

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:47:37 -0400

Subject: Re: SV: [FT] Jump Limits

> Oerjan Ohlson wrote:

> ~115 000 000 km (0.77 AU, just outside the orbit of Venus) (assuming I

From: UsClintons@a...

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 01:04:23 EDT

Subject: Re: SV: [FT] Jump Limits

Howdy All,

I am new to the list and fairly new to SGII (although I have been gaming for
over 25 years...)

I see a few areas in SGII I would like to modify to suit my taste but I have a
question about one in particular.

The manual states that a squad's Fire Power that results in over D12 for a
squad is ignored. I also noticed that most of the squads in the SGII book
tend to be only 6-8 men, so this is not too much of a problem for THEM.
But
I intend on using larger squads of 9-10+ 'men' (for Orcs and Goblins in
particular).

The first thing that comes to mind for me is to allow the Firepower factors to
'wrap' and start over for a second dice based on the squads combined
firepower.  Thus a squad with 16 fire power would get both a D12 + D4
(plus quality die).

Is this 'old hat' for you SGII guys or do you use a different method? Or do
you guys like the D12 limit?

Thanks, R. Scott Clinton "Spreading the word of SGII in the hinterlands of
Texas"

PS Has anyone see/used any of Stan Johansen's Miniatures?
http://www.polomania.com/stan/