Ship Combat Turret Weapons Question
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Rikki Tikki Traveller
Cosmic Mongoose
As you can imagine it doesn't take many turrets before the number of rolls can get pretty huge.
Thus the Barrage rules in High Guard allow you to group identical weapons together and make a single roll.
It is very important that you roll each weapon separately though, rather than combine them. Due to the way armour works 2 rolls of 1d6 is significantly weaker than 1 roll of 2d6; so if you start combining hit/damage rolls, you can quickly make a weapon too powerful.
The Barrage rules take that into account and keep things reasonably balanced. HOWEVER, as written, the rules are a bit difficult to follow. There are a couple of threads here on this forum that help with that. Several people have worked through it and figured out how it is SUPPOSED to work and have posted clearer rules. Check them out!
Thus the Barrage rules in High Guard allow you to group identical weapons together and make a single roll.
It is very important that you roll each weapon separately though, rather than combine them. Due to the way armour works 2 rolls of 1d6 is significantly weaker than 1 roll of 2d6; so if you start combining hit/damage rolls, you can quickly make a weapon too powerful.
The Barrage rules take that into account and keep things reasonably balanced. HOWEVER, as written, the rules are a bit difficult to follow. There are a couple of threads here on this forum that help with that. Several people have worked through it and figured out how it is SUPPOSED to work and have posted clearer rules. Check them out!
Solomani666
Mongoose
locarno24 said:
One roll to hit, three separate rolls for damage.
Jak Nazryth
Mongoose
How does everyone (else) handle point defense?
Since a missile is automatically destroyed when hit, and a laser can keep attacking with an on-going -2 penalty for each shot, how do you handle multiple lasers in a single turret?
If you have 3 point defense lasers in one turret, does each laser get a chance to hit?
There is no point if all of them attacking at once, since as mentioned above, missiles are destroyed automatically...
An idea I picked up from the Hero System, Champions... "spreading dice" is something I'm seriously considering. If in fact you can only fire a turret one time in a 6 minute combat, then what's the point of having multiple weapons firing at a missile?
If you really want to hit something, you can trade in a damage roll for an additional +1 to hit. So if you have 3 lasers, and you REALLY want to hit a target, you can get a +2 to hit, but only roll damage for 1 of the lasers.
Since a missile is automatically destroyed when hit, and a laser can keep attacking with an on-going -2 penalty for each shot, how do you handle multiple lasers in a single turret?
If you have 3 point defense lasers in one turret, does each laser get a chance to hit?
There is no point if all of them attacking at once, since as mentioned above, missiles are destroyed automatically...
An idea I picked up from the Hero System, Champions... "spreading dice" is something I'm seriously considering. If in fact you can only fire a turret one time in a 6 minute combat, then what's the point of having multiple weapons firing at a missile?
If you really want to hit something, you can trade in a damage roll for an additional +1 to hit. So if you have 3 lasers, and you REALLY want to hit a target, you can get a +2 to hit, but only roll damage for 1 of the lasers.
