Federation Commander

[SylvrDragon]

You only get 1 point of burn through, as long as you score at least 10 points of damage, no matter how many points of damage you deal in a volley. Meaning you hit someone for 10 damage, then you'd put 9 on the shields and 1 inter. Or say you deal 20 damage, in which case you'd deal 19 to the shields and 1 internal. Am I correct in my understanding?
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[sock]

I'm 99% sure that it is one point of burn through for each 10 damage,

meaning
10-19 damage 1 pt burn through
20-29 2 pts burn through

etc
etc
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[OGOPTIMUS]

SylvrDragon has it correct. You only score one internal point of damage for the whole volley if it's doesn't penetrate the shields. Rule 3C8.
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[Scoutdad]

Note that is an example, SVC clarified this issue:
You have a 10 box shield and the incoming fire does 10 points. How is this resolved?

In this case, 9 shield boxes are disabled and 1 point of burn-through is scored - leaving 1 active shield box!
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[SylvrDragon]

[OGOPTIMUS]

I thought there were more examples around somewhere, but I can't recall right now. If you look at the text of the rule 3C8 it says "score the remaining nine (ore more) damage points on the shield". So if you hit shield #1 of a B10 with 68 points of damage, you only get one internal hit, AND it's front shield is still up (with one point left)!
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[Repok]

Thanks for the question.

I never realized this until now. Most of the volleys against cruisers either did 11-19 pts or blew right through the shield, so we were all of the opinion it was 1 per 10. It just never came up really.

This brings up the question...are seeking weapons off of the same ship a different volley (like SFB) or same? I don't have the rules handy.
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[Scoutdad]

[mjwest]

FWIW, Scoutdad is correct on the original issue, and this issue.
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[jmt]

[Scoutdad]

Touche'!

Hellbores, PPD, and Web Breaker are indeed exceptions to thisrule, but as they were either 1) published after the version 4 rulebook was released, or 2) have not yet been "officially" printed - can I be forgiven for overlooking them?

That particular statement probably does need to be addressed in the version 5 rulebook. Oh Mike, can you add a note to have the latter portion of rule (3A4) checked against possible exceptions when version 5 is released?

Thanks,
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[junior]

No worries. The Hellbore and Plasmatic Pulsar Device are both rather easy to overlook. But they do need to be mentioned simply because of the unique way in which they handle volleys (the FedCom version of The Mizia Effect, if you can get enough shields down).

[Scoutdad]

PPD's and web-breakers / shield crackers I should have caught. Hellbores OTOH, I try very hard to ignore as it was developed by and is the primary weapon of those "insert favorite invective here"
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[Vladimyr]

I've noticed that if you have a 10 point shield and also have armor remaining, then if you take 11 or 12 damage, don't reinforce, as the burn through ignores armor. If you let those minor points penetrate the shield, it damages the armor instead.

Is this correct?