Leroy's 3e

Hi Leroy!

Great stuff, I really like it! Sorry for the slow
response!

Some questions and comments:

Ship Construction:
1a) What is the reason for reducing the air supply to
50% (two man months per ton vs. four man months in the
old rules)?
1b) Will you extend the list with “sample ship stats”
to include all the ships from the original rules? (I
know it might be quite extensive)

Ship Combat:
2a) I think that a combat example with the various
aspects of movement and combat would be nice.
2b) It is written in “ship weapons”-section
sub-section concerning “specific targets” and
sub-sub-section on “targeting weapons” that the AC of
the weapon does not suffer any penalties the ship
gains from move actions. Why? It should (in my
opinion) be easier to hit a weapon if the ship makes
an unfavourable move.
2c) “ship weapons and the ready action. I can’t figure
what the penalty is for using the ready action for
ship weapons. If the penalty doesn’t exist, then it
should be stated that the ship weapon could be fired
at any time the crew leader pleases.
2d) I can’t figure the base ram damage described in
the sections concerning ramming. It is stated that the
base damage of the attacking ship is 2 times the
ship’s tonnage while the base damage from the “victim”
is the equal to the target ship’s hit points before it
was rammed. I made a small example for myself: 2
non-damaged hammerships, hit each other “head on”, the
speed of each ship is 5, base damage done to the
“victim” is 800 ((5+5)*2*40) hit point while base
damage to the attacker is 1680 hit points (2*840).
Even if the attacker makes his/her save and reduces
the damage to 840 hit points, he/she still suffers the
majority of the damage. Have I missed some thing
(misunderstood the text) or should the base damage
done to the attacker be reduced? Suggestion to
reduction is to 50% of the damage inflicted on the
“victim”.
2e) Do you got plans for introducing the “great
bombard” from the good old Giff preferred “great
bombard” ship, described in War Captain’s Companion,
to the ship weapon list?

This was a lot of comments to a great new system. Keep
up the good work!

Regards,

Caspar


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