ACTA:SF for dummies?!?!

[Totenkopf]

When you fire any weapon, a natural roll of "6" ignores the shields and rolls on the damage table directly. If you roll, say, a "4" and the +2 accuracy makes that a "6", it just hits shields as normal.

@ID to be specific though, when you say "When you fire any weapon..." you meant when you roll your Attack Dice to see if you hit with a weapon, which means ALL SEEKING weapons are excluded from this. Therefore, SEEKING weapons will always do damage to shields, unless shields are absent.

Just want to make sure that no one is confused or otherwise misled by that statement.

 

[MarkDawg]

I have a question about arcs I know you measure from the stem but how do you measure the arcs?

 

[GalagaGalaxian]

I believe the most common method (at least back when I played B5:ACTA) was marking dots or lines on the base in the 45 degree angles.

Something like this:

 

[MarkDawg]

So now we are going off the base? I think this needs to be addressed this is not clear at all.

 

[Greg Smith]

Many of us use old B5 ACTA templates.

GF9 do a multi-template. Also, there is a downloadable 'compass' template on GW's Battlefleet Gothic page.

Heck, many folks just use the corner of a piece of paper.

 

[Da Boss]

The turning template for BFG is pretty good and nice and compact


http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1300007_BFG_Bearing_Compass.pdf

There are a number of useful free resources on their BFG pages inlcuding planets and asteroids.

 

[IraShaine1972]

Get one of those clear Warhammer blast templates and take a black sharpy and a ruler and draw a black cross across it. THEN when figuring a 45 degree arc just put the nose as directly in the middle of two of the cross lines and every gap between lines is an arc and to make a 45 degree turn simply pivot the model to line up parallel with either line to the left or right. T figure 90 degree arcs do the same thing just orient your model parallel to the line at the start.

 

[LTJGBEAM]

So now we are going off the base? I think this needs to be addressed this is not clear at all.

You measure from the Post. Drawing the arcs on the base just allows for using the Tape measure to see which arc is being hit when measuring from Firing Ship Post to Target Ship Post...

 

[MarkDawg]

I see your point but there is not one place in the book that says that and there is no standard size base so I could have a base the size of a dinner plate my 90 degree arch will be a lot bigger than yours on a 30 mil base.

 

[Spence]

I believe the most common method (at least back when I played B5:ACTA) was marking dots or lines on the base in the 45 degree angles.

Something like this:

Good design. I made one one a doc that I have printed to a sheet of clear sticker paper. I punch them out with a 2" circle punch and apply to the bottom of the base.

 

[Iain McGhee]

Think I'll be printing that off to use as a template to mark my own bases.

 

[Iain McGhee]

I see your point but there is not one place in the book that says that and there is no standard size base so I could have a base the size of a dinner plate my 90 degree arch will be a lot bigger than yours on a 30 mil base.

From page 2: "All distances........are measured from the stem of a ship's base". And it doesn't make a blind bit of difference how big the base is, a 90 degree arc won't change.

 

[GalagaGalaxian]

Think I'll be printing that off to use as a template to mark my own bases.

You should make/find a neater one, I made it in MS paint and eyeballed the dots, so they're probably not very exact.

 

[Iain McGhee]

Good eyes then, my protractor says it's spot on