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Power Absorber Disruptor Burn-Through Rounding

 
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terryoc
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 4:33 pm    Post subject: Power Absorber Disruptor Burn-Through Rounding Reply with quote

Damage from volleys including disruptors scored against an Andromedan PA panel bank get one point of burn through for each ten points scored. If a volley scores, say, 15 points, is that rounded up (1.5 rounded up, or 2) or down (to 1)? I've been playing it as rounded down, but wanted to be sure.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 5:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No rounding. It is whole 10 points. So,
0-9 points: no burn through
10-19 points: 1 point of burn through
20-29 points: 2 points of burn through
and so on.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry to necro this thread, but the question is germane.

If I score three Disruptor burnthrough points as in Terry's example above, do I roll three separate times on the damage table, or do I roll once and then take the results from Columns 1, 2 and 3?

For example, say I roll a '1', do I score 'RWarp-Impulse-LWarp', or do I score 'RWarp' then roll the die again another twice, scoring possibly different damage rows?
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 5:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We've always played continuous across the chart.

That's why our disruptor dudes always target weapons.
30 points gets 3 burn through and a 50% chance of Phaser-Drone (err. PA Panel), Torpedo.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There was an addition to (3G2b) for Rev6 that says: "Mulitple burn through points are combined into a single volley."
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mjwest wrote:
There was an addition to (3G2b) for Rev6 that says: "Mulitple burn through points are combined into a single volley."

There is indeed. Just spotted it before reading your answers Smile

Thanks guys.

Tony, have you considered putting your trick above in as a tactical article? I will leave that trick out of my new article....
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Commnad Note already written and submitted.
It didn't make CL 42, so hoping for CL 43.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mine's submitted too. Let's hope they include them both as a sort of 'tag team' effort.....
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

huh...I never considered that you could use directed damage on burn-though points.

I don't think i like that rule.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jon - Try it giving rather than receiving. It feels a whole lot better that way round Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JonPerry wrote:
huh...I never considered that you could use directed damage on burn-though points.

I don't think i like that rule.

You almost have to use it.
The only way to use directed targeting is to declare it before the dice are rolled.

At that point, you don't know if you're goign to hit or not... and if so; will you do 9 points, or 49?
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