Damage scaling (ship weapons vs. people)

[infojunky]

Gee, I forgot all about the main mechanic of Striker combat. Don't forget to calculate TL into the design specs of lasers, at the TL they enter in they have a significantly lower PEN value than at the TL 13 break point.

Sorry I was talking about Lasers at Tech Level of introduction.

TL8 250mw Beam laser has a output of 62.5mw, which has a Penetration of 625mm of armor. i.e. Pen of 73.

Max High Guard Armor at TL15 is 65.

I suppose...but then you have to forget that the majority of internal spaces in ships are not enclosed by bulkheads. The three main compartments of a ship us bulkheads to divide them from the rest of the ship, and therefor the same relative armor as the outside hull if you extrapolate the HG definitions of what armor in a ship is. The rest of the interior compartments and living spaces use internal walls that are not nearly as strong.

A compartment in the sense of a volume of a ship's hull that can be sealed to prevent flooding. Or in Traveller's starships atmospheric integrity. As I said it was just an idea, in answer to age old question of integrating Striker and ship combat.

You really need to define your ruleset to use these things.

Never left CT, just noting a idea based firmly on a CT basis has similarity to a mechanic in T5.

 

[jec10]

Remember also that, according to CT/Striker Rule 75.B. when you're rolling for damage from a Striker weapon on a ship you use the HG damage tables "using the weapon's penetration as a negative DM and the ship's armor rating plus 6 as a positive DM."

 

[infojunky]

Remember also that, according to CT/Striker Rule 75.B. when you're rolling for damage from a Striker weapon on a ship you use the HG damage tables "using the weapon's penetration as a negative DM and the ship's armor rating plus 6 as a positive DM."

Yes, which gives effectively one more point of penetration.

2d6 + Ships Armor + 6 - penetration...

So in the case above

2d6 + 65 + 6 - 73 = 2d6 - 2

Thus plugging in the average roll for 2d6 = 7

The result is 5 on the surface explosions table, which gives a result of Interior Explosions...

 

[Hyphen]

Nope, the value for basic hull in Striker is 40 - it is on the errata sheet that came with the boxed game, the errata printed in JTAS and the errata on the FFE CT CD.

FWIW, it's available here:
http://members.tip.net.au/~davidjw/tavspecs/maint/strk_err.htm

 

[Hyphen]

Sorry I was talking about Lasers at Tech Level of introduction.

TL8 250mw Beam laser has a output of 62.5mw, which has a Penetration of 625mm of armor. i.e. Pen of 73.

Max High Guard Armor at TL15 is 65.

Or you can look up the Pens here (MT is the same as Striker):
http://members.tip.net.au/~davidjw/tavspecs/maint/combat/hyp_wpn/stshpwpn.htm

NOTE: I divided the MT damage rules by 100 for my purposes. I think that 50 dice of damage is quite enough without making it 500 dice...