Re: Tactics

On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Eugene Shumu1insky wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> In our last episode, Paul Westermeyer said:
> >I've been unhappy with the movement rules as well,  that's why I started
> >having each vessels alternate movement.  First one side then the other
> >spends 1 SR point (either to move or to turn).  When one side runs out of
> >SR for that round the other then spends what ever it has left.  this seems
> >to work okay,  but has had limited play testing.
>
> 	Wouldn't that give the ship with the faster SR a *way* bigger
> advantage?  I was thinking of using an equal number of "movement segments",
> with each ship moving a portion of their full SR.  For instance, a ship
> with an SR of 6 vs a ship with SR 3 would move 2 hexes per movement, while
> the slower ship would only move one.

One variant could be to divide the round into 10 "movement steps",
and a ship moves only in some of these (according to its SR). The
table would look something like this:

      Segment
SR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1          *
2      *         *
3    *       *     *
4    *   *     *   *
5    *   *   *   *   *
6  *   *   * *   *   *
7  *   * * *   * *   *
8  * *   * * * *   * *
9  * * * *   * * * * *
10 * * * * * * * * * *

If one should have a SR of more than 10 (not likely, but possible
with proficiencies like Spelljamming and spells like Increase
Rating), one moves once on every step, and twice on the steps
corresponding to (SR-10). If you play this system, a ship can
shoot in any step that it moves, either before or after the move.

What do you think?


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