RE: [NetEpic ML] [v5.0] Core Rules: Fortification tidbits

From: <jyrki.saari_at_...>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 09:10:52 +0300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Jarreas Underwood [mailto:jarreas_at_mindspring.com]
> Sent: 03. May 2002 0:26
> To: netepic_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [NetEpic ML] [v5.0] Core Rules: Fortification tidbits
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>
> >Then the stats need to be adjusted! If a mole mortar
> >shell comes up in the middle of a trench, it would
> >actually do MORE damage to the trench occupants than
> >it would in open countryside.
> >
> >Steve
>
> I agree. When we get to the army lists I'll be suggesting we
> add "Ignores
> Cover", "Damages Buildings" and "Can't Damage Skimmers" to both Mole
> Mortars and Vibro-Cannons. That work?

No need to add "damages buildings" to mole mortar since any barrage weapon already does. As for the "ignores cover"; IMO that's reserved for flame-type weapons. Even if the mole mortar shell pops up through the floor of a fortress the situation isn't any different from a standard shell coming thruogh the roof. And a direct hit to a trench is a direct hit no matter where the shell comes from. As for can't damage skimmers, why? The shell explodes as it breaks the ground and the blast is in every way comparable to normal artillery.

Vibro cannon is a different matter since the resonating waves actually are transmitted so that the ground acts as the medium, so a skimmer would pretty much be immune to those.

> -Yar
>
>


Jyrki Saari

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