Applying critical hits and repairing them

[ochd]

I had various questions about how to apply the 'all effects are cumulative' aspect of critical hits, both as a result of achieving an effect of +6 or higher and as a result of sustained damage.

1. A ship with starting hull points of 80 sustains 24 points of damage from one attack -- ie, 30% of its starting hull. As I have interpreted the rules, that results in three severity-1 critical hits. If you roll the same location three times, therefore, the second and third critical hits are treated as severity 2 and 3.
- Does this mean that, if the location is Hull each time, the ship suffers an additional total of 6D damage (1D+2D+3D)? And will this also mean that it will likely result in further critical hits from sustained damage?
- What about if the location is M-Drive each time -- is the total DM penalty -3 or -6?

2. The same ship sustains 24 points of damage from one attack, but this time the attack has an effect +6, making it a severity-3 critical hit.
- Assuming the ship has taken no other critical hits, is the result under the severity-3 column applied, or the three results of columns 1, 2 and 3. So, if the location is Hull, does the ship suffer an additional 3D damage or 6D from this high-effect attack?
- In addition to the critical hit from that high-effect attack, the ship will also now suffer three severity-1 critical hits from sustaining damage equal to 30% of its starting hull -- thus, four rolls on the critical hits location table. Potentially, if the same location is rolled four times, the ship could have a severity-6 critical hit. The questions above then apply to this situation.
- In this scenario, then, potentially a scout ship or a free trader could be reduced to hull 0 with a single pulse laser attack and some unlucky rolling.

3. Finally, under the repair rules (CRB, p.150), it says damage to ship falls into two categories 'critical hits' and 'hull damage'.
- do critical hits to the Hull location need to be repaired as critical hits, or just as hull damage?
- is a severity-3 critical hit that is the result of three severity-1 hits to the same location treated as one critical hit or three, for the purposes of repair?

Many thanks,

Dan.

 

[AnotherDilbert]

1. A ship with starting hull points of 80 sustains 24 points of damage from one attack -- ie, 30% of its starting hull. As I have interpreted the rules, that results in three severity-1 critical hits.

Yes.

If you roll the same location three times, therefore, the second and third critical hits are treated as severity 2 and 3.
- Does this mean that, if the location is Hull each time, the ship suffers an additional total of 6D damage (1D+2D+3D)?

Yes.

And will this also mean that it will likely result in further critical hits from sustained damage?

Yes.

- What about if the location is M-Drive each time -- is the total DM penalty -3 or -6?

I would say DM-6, you suffer the cumulative effects of severity 1, 2, and 3.

2. The same ship sustains 24 points of damage from one attack, but this time the attack has an effect +6, making it a severity-3 critical hit.

Yes, plus three crits for sustained damage as before.

- Assuming the ship has taken no other critical hits, is the result under the severity-3 column applied, or the three results of columns 1, 2 and 3. So, if the location is Hull, does the ship suffer an additional 3D damage or 6D from this high-effect attack?

I would say all effects are suffered, so 6D. That is how I have interpreted the cumulative effect, but rereading it I'm not sure that is correct...

- In addition to the critical hit from that high-effect attack, the ship will also now suffer three severity-1 critical hits from sustaining damage equal to 30% of its starting hull -- thus, four rolls on the critical hits location table. Potentially, if the same location is rolled four times, the ship could have a severity-6 critical hit. The questions above then apply to this situation.
- In this scenario, then, potentially a scout ship or a free trader could be reduced to hull 0 with a single pulse laser attack and some unlucky rolling.

Yes. This is a very real threat for small craft.

3. Finally, under the repair rules (CRB, p.150), it says damage to ship falls into two categories 'critical hits' and 'hull damage'.
- do critical hits to the Hull location need to be repaired as critical hits, or just as hull damage?

I would say both; It's a crit that leads to additional regular damage, just as you can't repair damage to cargo or crew by repairing the crit.

- is a severity-3 critical hit that is the result of three severity-1 hits to the same location treated as one critical hit or three, for the purposes of repair?

Three crits were inflicted, so I would say you need to repair three crits.