Federation Commander

mjwest · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject:

Not to raise a dead thread, but ...

First, in the case outlines by Kang, the ship will have line of sight, and the target can choose the shield that is facing. You get line of sight along a hex side; the imaginary line from hex center to hex center must enter the planet hex to block it.

Second, on the point of the to-hit modifier, Steve has provided this clarification:
(6B3) If there are four or more hexes of asteroids, add two to the die roll.

And, while I am on the subject, there is this one, too, which is a change from what I have said before:
(6) Asteroid damaged is halved in fleet scale. Round fractions up.
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pinecone · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:49 pm Post subject:

Is fleet scale drone damage the same, or fourthed?

Kang · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject:

pinecone · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject:

I should have been specific and said asteriod damage to fleet scale drones. thanks.

mjwest · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:45 pm Post subject:

No. Since, technically, all drones (and fighters) are squadron scale, they take damage like the would at squadron scale.
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Kang · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:42 am Post subject:

Re-reviving the thread, but that's because it will keep the terrain questions more together.

Last night we played a game where we had the big gas-giant 'Jupiter' planet from Hydran Attack on the board [we were using large hexes].

Although the planet picture is circular, is it the case that the planet is actually hexagonal for game purposes?

To put it another way, is the line of sight blocked by any hex containing a part of the circular planet graphic, or is it the planet graphic itself that blocks the LOS?
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Kang · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:45 am Post subject:

Also, Mike, should we put the asteroid-web-anchor clarification that you gave earlier in this thread in the CRUL?
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Mike · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:08 pm Post subject:

I don't mean to speak for Mike West, but I always thought that for medium to large planets, any hex occupied by the planet would block a LOS.

m1a1dat · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 5:06 am Post subject:

I have a couple new terrain questions about asteroids.

First question: drones have impacted a ship and were stopped by a tractors. The ship then enters a asteroid hex. Do the impacted and tractored drones also take asteroid damage? Do all units roll once and take that damage? Or does each unit roll its own damge. I would presume if they did that it would be done under the ships baseline speed.

After some searching i figured out the offensive ESG and asteroid interaction. But is there any interaction when the ESG is used in defensive mode in an asteroid hex? would the asteroid hex still count as another target and absorb defensive fire damge from the ESG?

Thanks

mjwest · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:34 am Post subject:

mjwest · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:44 am Post subject:

m1a1dat · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:12 am Post subject:

A couple more asteroid questions that came up in our last game.

1)My opponent has tractored me and has more energy in movement than me so is also controlling the movement. He push/pulls/drags/shoves me into an asteroid hex. Which shield do i take the damage on? The rules say #1 if i am moving forward etc, but as i am tractored and sort of considered not moving, we wondered if that would make a difference. Would the #1 or #4 shield, based on my original movement direction, still take the damage even if i was moved in the opposite direction, or would the shield facing that was moved into the asteroid take the damage?

2) Will asteroid or any other terrain damage,if in sufficient amount, cause leak damage? My opponent thought no, i thought yes, but looking in the rules say leak damage is done by the volley and a volley was defined as damage caused by direct fire and seeking weapons.

Scoutdad · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:53 am Post subject:

The way we interpret the rules:

1) Yes, even if moved intothe asteroids involuntarily... damage is applied to the #1 / #4 shield.

2) Yes, if damage equals or exceeds 10 points, then one point of burn-through is applied.
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Kang · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 8:09 am Post subject:

Do you still apply the damage to #1/#4, when dragging an opponent's ship through asteroids, if he's got a different facing from you?

Say I am tractoring an opponent off my #2 shield; I'm facing A and he's facing B. The asteroids occupy the row of hexes to the right of my ship, i.e. off my #2/#3 shields, I have control of movement and am moving forwards. Surely, then, his #6 shield is the one that's going to take damage from the asteroids?
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Scoutdad · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:39 pm Post subject:

Tony:
It seems as if that's the way it would work (does that in SFB, at least); but...

When Plasmaboy pulled that stunt at during the big Battlegroup Murfreesboro game when SVC stopped by for a visit, we asked him for a clrification.

According to Steve, the #1/#4 shield only was part of the Fed Comm simplification process. It the front part of the ship enters first (#6/#1/#2 shield) - then the damage goes to the #1... vis versa for the other end.

It seems counter intuitive and a bit harder to remember than facing shield takes damage - but it does lead to ships blowing up faster and that's what FC is all about.
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