Sheilds - which hits are stopped?

[mollari_uk]

How do you decide which hits are stopped by shields. Do you have to roll every AD separately?

Eg.

If I have 5 sheilds and someone rolls 10AD and gets 7 hits (2crits). Which are stopped?

Hope this makes sense.

 

[Burger]

You have 5 shields, someone has 10AD and rolls 7 hits. 5 hits are stopped. He then rolls the 2 remaining hits on the Damage table.

ie. shields stops hits, before they are rolled to see if they become crit/solid/bulkhead.

 

[katadder]

or even better, they get 4 hits with DD weapons and 5 shields stop 3 of them so he only rolls one damage roll. odd numbers of shields are great when it comes to DD weapons.

 

[mollari_uk]

I'm an idiot. You can see I'm a newb.

Thanks!

But:

or even better, they get 4 hits with DD weapons and 5 shields stop 3 of them so he only rolls one damage roll. odd numbers of shields are great when it comes to DD weapons.

I don't get it. Doesn't it stop all 4 with 5 sheilds?

 

[katadder]

no it stops 3 DD hits.
if you have DD/TD/QD weapons these do the equivalent in hits to shields, so a DD weapon does 2 shield damage.
however get 3 hits with a DD weapon on 5 shields 4 damage takes down 4 shields, the last 2 damage causes one and cannot carry over.

 

[Burger]

I'm an idiot. You can see I'm a newb.

Thanks!

But:

or even better, they get 4 hits with DD weapons and 5 shields stop 3 of them so he only rolls one damage roll. odd numbers of shields are great when it comes to DD weapons.

I don't get it. Doesn't it stop all 4 with 5 sheilds?

Double Damage hits take off 2 shields each (and triple take 3, quad 4...). But 1 shield will block 1 entire double damage hit; it won't somehow block half of the hit. So shields 5 will completely block 3 double damage hits, or even 2 quad damage hits.

 

[katadder]

1 shield will even block a single quad damage hit as no damage carries over.

 

[mollari_uk]

Ah yes, I remember! I'm going to make sure I've got the book with me before I post a stupid question like this again.



Thanks for your quick replies though.

 

[Voronesh]

No these questions arent stupid. New players have every right to ask them.


Also older players sometimes misread rules and get a chance of correcting that mistake ^^.

 

[Burger]

The only stupid question is the one you don't ask
Better to ask than to play it wrong...

 

[Sulfurdown]

No these questions arent stupid. New players have every right to ask them.
Also older players sometimes misread rules and get a chance of correcting that mistake ^^.

Old players also have every right to ask them!! (It's easy to get the odd rule lodged sideways in the thought process and play for months or years that way. Especially if you can logically and persuasively convince those around you with less knowledge of the rules that you're right.)