Re: MT ship combat
In reply to #790 MT ship combat by SULAIMAN
> Has anyone out there really used the MT space combat system. > If so I have a few questions that I would like answered. > 1. How do you handle Sensor Tasks. The rules say only one task is > free next costs one battery of fire. It seems to imply that there > is no point in having fighters or 100 t ships they only have one > battery most of the time. As Fire requires two tasks, Scan+Pin > it seems to be flawed. > I'm reading this as one SET of scans. Each set being Scan+Pin. Other option > being that Scans are being done routinely and don't cost anything. 1st Pinpoint > is free, 2nd Pinpoint cost one battery and so on. Well, In Real Life(tm) naval combat a lockon (pinpoint) is in effect until volountarily broken or broken by the target by heavy manuevering, electronic countermeasures, or decoys etc. Disclaimer: All I know about Real Life(tm) naval combat I've learned from Harpoon II, Jane's Fighting Ships, and a book about electronic warfare. In Traveller terms I guess this would be translated to that a pinpoint is in effect until the target has made a task to break it (Max once per turn) (suggested DM's, Pilotskill, Agility, computerlevels, ECM) The *number* of simultaneous lockons is the real limitation. A suggested limit is equalt to the computer number. Model1 or 1bis => 1 lockon at a time, a Model9 could have 9 simultaneous lockons. The rules about 1 free sensor task and 1 per battery I would leave alone. If this was combined with the above changes, It would lead to that a small ship is forced to spend several turnes to locate and fire upon an opponent. But a large ship could still not pinpoint several hundred targets and blow them off the face of space. I believe this is in the interest of game-balance. - -bertil- - -- Bertil K K Jonell @ Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg NET: [email removed] VOICE: [phone removed] / +46 300 61004 "Don't worry,I've got Pilot-7" [address removed] (Famous last words) "GOOD DEEL ON SLIGHTLY USED CRANE" Orson Scott Card 'The Abyss' All opinions and material above is the responsibility of the originator. Submissions: [email removed], or [email removed] Administrator: [email removed] (James Perkins) The TML is made possible by facilities provided by Tektronix, Inc.