On 11/10/20 7:15 am, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
> My argument is:
>
> Small ships can avoid the worst buffeting. Larger ships have less
> maneuverability and thus get buffeted harder. The DM is for avoiding
> the damage in the first place so that's why small ships should be
> advantaged.
>
> Bigger ships should have a lot more structure (weight of hull and
> reinforcements) so they stand up better even if they take more dice of
> damage.
>
> Any class of ship ought to be able to expend a % of hull space to
> provide additional bulkheading, shock framing, and general internal
> buffering and the ships that do that ought to either have more DPs for
> doing that (vs. a regular hull of the same size) or a DM to avoid
> (depends how you want to model it).
>
> So small ship (say 200 ton) getting a +2 DM to avoid the damage (civ
> hull). Military hull with heavier internal superstructure might add an
> additional +1 to +3 depending on how much % of hull (and credits and
> so on) you bought.
>
> Military hulls would have more internal heavy duty shock frames and
> bulkheads and heavy hatches both for internal security vs. boarding
> and for strength / resilience vs.buffeting or even battle damage.
>
> Not sure the game models that, but two 200 dTon ships (one military,
> one civ) should have different internal constructions.
>
> TomB

Tom, Tom, Collision, et al,

So I take it it wasn't exclusively some wombat misreading the rules, it
was Mongoose not considering the interaction of two rules? (MASSIVE
surprise, that).

Do any of you have any beef with the sustained-damage crit rules?

The hull points per ton ratios are (for MGT2, per MGT2 HG):

< 25 kdton - 1 HP / 2.5 dton

25 kton - < 100 kdton - 1 HP / 2 dton

>= 100 kdton - 1 HP / 1.5 dton

Springing for a reinforced hull adds 10% to hull points and 50% to hull
cost.

Some hull configurations also boost hull pointage:

Close structure - +10% HP, hull cost -10%

Planetoid - +25% HP, hull cost - special

Buffered planetoid - +50% HP, hull cost - special

Alex

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