Federation Commander

Why is a Phasor 1, at range 0 with a roll of 6 do 4 points of damage while in the same situation a PH 2 does 5?

I know that the PH 1 still is a lot better as it was meant to be, but if the PH 2 can do 5, why can't the PH 1?

It all goes back to the original game, Star Fleet Battles.

In SFB, the Phaser-1 and Phaser-2 are basically the same unit. The difference is desricbed as being in the targetting array.
The Federation has better technology and can design / build a more precise targeter for the phaser array. This gives you a Phaser-1.
The Klingons, being slightly less technologically competent believe in the brute force method.
Their targeting system isn't as accurate, but when you get close enough - it can blast a really big hole in anything!

That was the basis for the original discrepancy between the phaser-1 / phaser-2 damage chart.

So the fact that the PH 2 is occasionally better than the PH 1 is purposeful?

Sure - otherwise, everyone would always have the P-1 and the poor little P-2 would be left out in the cold... all alone and un-loved...

I thought it was because, due to less tech for the Klinks, it costed them more to build a PH 1.

Scoutdad wrote:Sure - otherwise, everyone would always have the P-1 and the poor little P-2 would be left out in the cold... all alone and un-loved...

Well, don't worry - your friends from M31 will be more than whatever-passes-for-being-happy-to-an-Andromedan to continue making use of whatever-it-is-they-use-that-seems-to-equate-to-a-phaser-2 as part of their Milky Way (and Magellanic Cloud) Galactic Tour!

Thanks, Gary.

i can always count on you to bring me back down to earth... err, Sol... I mean up to the Magellanic Cloud... err, ummm, M31... oh Heck!

You know what I'm trying to say!

Me and my Feddies have to refer to different homeworlds when addressing different races. You have it easy .

I love it!

Payback is so much fun...