Federation Commander

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[jmt]

Micro-volleys are useful in depleting your opponent's energy more that Mizia effects. Long range sniping makes your opponent burn energy to reinforce his shields or to repair shields in the next turn.
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jmt

[junior]

Only if your opponent is reckless enough to burn all of his or her energy doing shield reinforcement. How many good players out there do you know that would happily blow all of their energy doing shield reinforcement instead of arming weapons and the like?

Allowing it "because poor players will burn all of their energy doing shield reinforcement" isn't much of an argument for implementing it, imo.

[DNordeen]

Besides, I don't think it's fair to allow someone to reinforce against the PPD to such a degree. That would in my opinion unbalance the PPD making it less effective than other weapons.
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[Bolo_MK_XL]

Depends on whether you rely on the PPD as primary or secondary weapon ---
With Plasmas on board, I personally would see it as secondary ---
How I used it in games I did ---

It becomes the equivalent of a drone -- dare your opponent to reinforce, or accept weakened shields -- used at the right time, it becomes a damned if you do, damned it you don't event ---

I would probably see it differently when I get to fly an ISC with 2 or more PPDs ---

[Kang]

Something else too - a) does the PPD qualify for Directed Damage, and, if so, then b) can an overloaded PPD do directed damage?

My point would be that it's not so much that the individual power of each pulse is stronger like it would be with a photon or disruptor or whatever, it's just that there's simply more pulses. Each pulse is identical whether fired from an overloaded PPD or a non-overloaded PPD.

However in the interests of simplicity, it may well be best to keep the no-directed-damage rule for an overloaded PPD, to keep it in line with all other overloaded heavy weapons.
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[mjwest]

As the rules current sit, a) Yes; b) No.
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[junior]

iirc, the Hellbore lost the ability to do directed damage in DK (I need to doublecheck this, however). If so, then imo the PPD should lose it as well.

[OGOPTIMUS]

What is the purpose of Rule 4M2c?? Since you have to add energy during energy allocation only, how can you even begin to think of reloading a PPD on a turn you've fired it?

I'm getting this from the Booster 0 version that SVC posted earlier in this thread. Is this rule removed in the Reference Rulebook version?
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[mjwest]

Yes, that rule was dropped for exactly that reason.
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[storeylf]

Talking of rule 4M2c.

In the reference rule book that is the start of game pre-load rule. Is there a typo here, it says that you don't have to lose moer batteries than the cost of normal pre-loading and gives an example of 2 PPds only costing 4 batteries. But the normal cost of preloading is 4 power per PPD so shouldn't that be a cost of up to 8 batteries if you have that many?

[mjwest]

*sigh*

Yeah, that'd be another typo ...
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