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S&P stands for "Signs and Portents". http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/signsnportentsarchive

Thanks for the clarification! This makes sense. I'm used to the Fading Suns RPG, were shields stopped attacks, not damage. I'll need to remember that ACTA rules are much more abstract.

That's where the 0,875 result came from. :-)

Hmm... Then I need to ask you when you use shields: roll AD, subtract shields, apply multihit OR roll AD, apply multihit, subtract shields?

You forgot to subtract Shields - Vau weapons haven't got the Burn-out trait. Against Hull 5 and Shields 4 average damage drops to 0,875 (attack is a 6D6-4 roll, with 7 points of damage each)! Maximal damage is still 24 points. ;-) True, but a 4AD Missile salvo deals average damage of 1,528 -...

It depends how you look at it. From the game's point of view Vau may be like Shadows. But from the setting's perspective the are typical super-advanced, mysterious, "we know better, and you still got much to learn" aliens. Just like Vorlons from the series. ;-) The stats seem OK. I'm only...

There are many small errors in the book. References to equipment and troops not in the book (cyber troops, blur suits, etc.), golems aren't available to any of the Houses, different names of Church ships in the title line of stats and in the description of troops are all I've noticed. It is...

I like the book. It is worth waiting for! I especially like the Vau fleet and Church both support fighters (basic fighter useful for something more than just dogfights - nice :) ). Nice work!

It seems that "Fleets of the Fading Suns" will finally be published! :D Did you notice that the cover art presented in Planet Mongoose is slightly different from the one in the ACTA:NA Rulebook section? I think about a year ago there was a discussion about few "setting bugs" in the first...

I think someone forgot about that "little detail". After all it is said that the quantum spheres are "just" the source of power, propulsion and the only weaponry (what are those rays they are shooting from the hull?) of Vau ships. :?

I'm just a simple-mined soldier... I do not comprehend all these political maneuvering. All I want is to get equipment I can count on on a battlefield. Now I clearly see that someone must have paid the Supreme Order of Engineers a huge amount of money to convince then to make the EM guns faulty...

The problem is that the EM gun should be the best weapon for taking out shields. After all, it was described in the Fading Suns RPG as "a gun designed solely to burn-out a shield". The rules for EM guns don't need a fix, they don't make it useless. But wouldn't it be nice, if the "anti shield"...

I believe there already is a solution to this problem in the Fading Suns universe. In the RPG version all blasters had the ability to "leak" through energy shields - that is to partially ignore them. Combining this feature with the proposed version of Burn-out should keep average damage of...