SV: Submunitions questions

> Michael Sandy wrote:

> How exactly are submunitions targetted?

No. One SubMunition Pack can target one ship.

> Can submunitions target fighters? Is the bulk of

No. Fighters are too small for the SMP to lock on to.

> Could you purchase one-shot fighter defenses? At

Kra'Vak Scatterguns (in More Thrust) are one-shot fighter defences...
but
they're very good against ships too. But there are no one-shot *DAF, no.

> I'm a bit confused about how the Electromagnetic

The Needle has a 50% chance to permanently disable the target system in
addition to the 1D6 damage (which passes through screens without reduction);
the EMP missile causes no structural damage but knocks out on
average (all ship references are to the design examples in FT, p.14-15)
:

27.8% of the systems on an unshielded target (eg, 2 systems on the Destroyer)
19.4% of the systems on a ship with screen level 1 (eg, 2 systems on the Heavy
Cruiser), 11.1% of the systems on a ship with screen level 2 (eg, 2 systems on
the Battledreadnought) or 5.5% of the systems on a ship with screen level 3
(eg, 1 system on the Superdreadnought).

Of course, the damage potential of the EMP missile is very big - but on
average, it isn't that powerful. Also, in my experience those ships most
vulnerable to it (unscreened ones) are either Escorts or Kra'Vak, and both
types tend to be quite maneuvrable (and thus have an easier time to avoid the
missiles).

> Does the system the needle missile is targetting have to

The rules say "on attacking, the missile's owner picks its target system"
(MT p.3).

Regards,

> Michael Sandy wrote:

> Of course, the damage potential of the EMP missile is very big - but

> Oerjan Ohlson

Oh, I forgot that Shields work against the EMP effects. Well, a volley of
shield targeting missiles followed by a volley of EMPs could be fun...

Thank you for providing the numbers on the EMP chances...