Ahmad Romanov
SOC-8
I was running a small solo game between two BL-15 Light Battleships (FSotSI pg 22) and I want to make sure I am doing things correctly:
1) I used batteries to get a sensor lock on the enemy ship… am I right in assuming these must be batteries that have bearing? The BL-15 has 10 of its 30 beam laser batteries that are effectively useless against a single enemy target because of their bearing and I was wondering if I could put them to use for the purpose of sensor tasks, but then I figured that was a little cheesy…
2) The only weapon on the BL-15 that could cause a critical hit was the spinal particle accelerator battery (UCP rating "T" vs a 200,000 dT target meant 1 critical hit if defenses were breached). However, page 93 says "These critical hits are reduced in number by one for every 3 levels of armor the target ship has over 40" (which means the first 23 critical hits are ignored by the BL-15, due to its armor value of 110). As a result, it seems like the spinal weapon cannot actually cause a critical hit against the BL-15 since it is by definition only a single battery. Moreover, since surface damage rolls from its other weapons also suffers a -23 DM (guaranteeing "no effect" results from the other weapons), am I right in understanding that two BL-15 cannot actually harm each other? It seems like spinal weapons should always deal a minimum of one critical hit, but I couldn't find anything to this effect in the rules.
1) I used batteries to get a sensor lock on the enemy ship… am I right in assuming these must be batteries that have bearing? The BL-15 has 10 of its 30 beam laser batteries that are effectively useless against a single enemy target because of their bearing and I was wondering if I could put them to use for the purpose of sensor tasks, but then I figured that was a little cheesy…
2) The only weapon on the BL-15 that could cause a critical hit was the spinal particle accelerator battery (UCP rating "T" vs a 200,000 dT target meant 1 critical hit if defenses were breached). However, page 93 says "These critical hits are reduced in number by one for every 3 levels of armor the target ship has over 40" (which means the first 23 critical hits are ignored by the BL-15, due to its armor value of 110). As a result, it seems like the spinal weapon cannot actually cause a critical hit against the BL-15 since it is by definition only a single battery. Moreover, since surface damage rolls from its other weapons also suffers a -23 DM (guaranteeing "no effect" results from the other weapons), am I right in understanding that two BL-15 cannot actually harm each other? It seems like spinal weapons should always deal a minimum of one critical hit, but I couldn't find anything to this effect in the rules.
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