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Combined Fire

Post by Natalya » Fri Jan 25, 2013 3:07 pm

If I have 6 minifigs with bastard guns and they combine fire on an armoured target and these guns do +1 and they all hit, is that 6 damage, or does it get ignored like the dice?
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Re: Combined Fire

Post by Rev. Sylvanus » Fri Jan 25, 2013 4:03 pm

Natalya wrote:If I have 6 minifigs with bastard guns and they combine fire on an armoured target and these guns do +1 and they all hit, is that 6 damage, or does it get ignored like the dice?
I've been playing that the +'s are separate from the actual dice when considering what armor removes. This has meant that in medieval games I play, three or four lucky spearmen can pick on an enemy armored knight. A good last resort, though not always cost effective.
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Re: Combined Fire

Post by stubby » Fri Jan 25, 2013 10:19 pm

6 damage. That's part of the fun of bastard guns, they can do that little bit of extra damage that slips past Armor.

Vermin bites, on the other hand, are ineffective against Armor. I would change them to 1d1s but I think that would just confuse people even more.
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Re: Combined Fire

Post by *CRAZYHORSE* » Sun Jan 27, 2013 2:09 pm

But then if an armored knight get's attacked by three spearmen who's spears then do a combined damage of 6. Would blocking one of the attacks with his shield even do anything at all?
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Re: Combined Fire

Post by stubby » Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:48 pm

Hey, that's a good point. Maybe I should add an option back in for parrying 1d6 in situations where Armored doesn't matter.

Alternately, I could just revise Armored to say that if there are no dice to cancel, then it just cancels all damage completely.
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Re: Combined Fire

Post by *CRAZYHORSE* » Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:26 pm

I think option two is better.
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Re: Combined Fire

Post by Zupponn » Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:43 pm

Maybe Armor should add a die to defense instead of taking one away from offense?
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Re: Combined Fire

Post by cleanupcrew » Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:52 pm

Zupponn wrote:Maybe Armor should add a die to defense instead of taking one away from offense?
THIS. It's basically the same effect but doesn't feel as shitty and OP as just ignoring damage. I would not accept the new armor rules just because of the psychological effect of basically ignoring damage, not even giving it a chance.

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Re: Combined Fire

Post by stubby » Sun Jan 27, 2013 7:14 pm

Zupponn wrote:Maybe Armor should add a die to defense instead of taking one away from offense?
We already have the Structure Level rules for that. That would just make Armor into an extra set of rules for doing the same thing we already have rules for, not unique enough to justify their existence.
Colette wrote:THIS. It's basically the same effect but doesn't feel as shitty and OP as just ignoring damage. I would not accept the new armor rules just because of the psychological effect of basically ignoring damage, not even giving it a chance.
That's your option; I'm already pretty clear about your opinion without you just repeating yourself a hundred times. I'm not forcing you to agree with everyone else that Armor is awesome.

Medieval foot soldiers probably felt the same way about armored knights that you do, but I bet the kings still thought they were pretty cool.
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Re: Combined Fire

Post by *CRAZYHORSE* » Sun Jan 27, 2013 8:09 pm

I really like the armor rules. You can't just overcome it with numbers, you need to bring something heavier then simple infantry weapons to take them down. Which adds rock, paper, scissor esque gameplay. It makes armored knights the dreaded melee tanks they are and makes space marines actually terrifying when they walk unscathed through a laser volley.
It also gives the you the possibility to make tanks feel more tank like. It doesn't matter how many machineguns you fire at a tank, it just won't pierce it's armor.
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Re: Combined Fire

Post by Zupponn » Sun Jan 27, 2013 8:30 pm

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Zupponn wrote:Maybe Armor should add a die to defense instead of taking one away from offense?
We already have the Structure Level rules for that. That would just make Armor into an extra set of rules for doing the same thing we already have rules for, not unique enough to justify their existence.
Then just have armor increase a minifig's structure level?
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Re: Combined Fire

Post by *CRAZYHORSE* » Sun Jan 27, 2013 8:52 pm

Zupponn wrote:Then just have armor increase a minifig's structure level?
You can already just increase a minifig's structure level up to 1d10 armor. So that makes buying armor that reduces your movement by 50% and removes all halfspeed movements feel kind of stupid. Besides it doesn't give that "impenetrable by simple infantry weapons" feel armored unit's should have.
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Re: Combined Fire

Post by Quantumsurfer » Sun Jan 27, 2013 11:15 pm

I've also noticed that using armored rules can speed the game along in spots, which I'm all in favor of.

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Re: Combined Fire

Post by Falk » Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:18 am

Quantumsurfer wrote:I've also noticed that using armored rules can speed the game along in spots, which I'm all in favor of.
This. While adding stucture levels is all good and well when you're playing by yourself, some opponents just get bored if there's too much rolling and not enough playing.
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Re: Combined Fire

Post by Rev. Sylvanus » Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:48 am

Falk wrote:This. While adding stucture levels is all good and well when you're playing by yourself, some opponents just get bored if there's too much rolling and not enough playing.
Less rolling is good; this is why I like armor. Tactical decision making is good; this is why I like armor. Seeing a shove actually be useful as a close combat action (at least here we play that a minifig shoved while in armor is knocked over); this is why I like armor.

In fact, much of the time we just use static numbers for almost all armor values. Only having to roll for skill and damage makes for quick turns.
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