Re: [Epic] Plasma Annihilator and Hellstorm Cannon

From: Mark A Shieh <SHODAN+_at_...>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 16:12:54 -0500 (EST)

"Miller, Chris" <CMiller_at_...> writes:
> > > But then again a Pulsar (my continuous gripe) fires 1d6 shots but
> > will be
> > > prevented from firing from 1 blast marker.

        It doesn't necessarily fire d6 shots. In SM/TL, it either
shot one enemy d6 times, or saturated an area with laser fire. I was
very disappointed with the Pulsar ruling as well, but at least they're
not the only weapons to get screwed by this. Barrages and Heavy
Barrages suffer from the same problem, and the Pulsar used to be a
barrage weapon in SM/TL most of the time.

> > ???? It is? Where did that come from? Seeing as a pulsar generates
> > D6 firepower for firefight purposes, I'd assumed you just lost one
> > shot
> > per marker.

        Is that d6 firepower thing a typo? I thought all SHWs
contributed 1 FP. It would make me feel a lot better about the ruling
if it was a 1 FP Firefighting weapon.

> ---------> It was in one of the QA's sent off way back. I didn't like
> the answer either, but for "official" answers, that was it.
>
> > > In the Battles book it seems to indicate that muiltibarrelled
> > weapons (or
> > > small heavy weapons) are treated as heavy weapon batteries (with
> > multiple
> > > firepower) - whereas all other superheavy weapons are stopped by
> > only one
> > > blast marker.

        I thought the reason that Heavy Weapon batteries weren't
stopped by 1 FP was because they weren't SHWs. They're just a bunch
of FP. Close Combat weapons just came with 4FP along with the SHW...

> ----------> Pretty much all of the SHW's look to be stopped by a single
> blastmarker except the Firepower weapons - they just lose one FP per BM
> like anything else, so the various close combat weapons are handy,
> especially in short ranged fights, for soaking up a few hits. The only
> non-FP weapons which have been treated differently so far in the Q&A's
> are the ones which say "3xDeath Ray" and such on the titan sheet, so
> that other post about being listed in the SHW section of the rules isn't
> far off. Pulsars are just screwed by being listed as a discrete weapon
> instead of only "d6 AT shots" on the sheet. If your listed as a non-fp
> SHW in the rules, it takes one BM to shut it down, but if it's listed as
> a multiple of one of those heavy weapons, it takes multiple markers to
> shut down...

Mark
Received on Tue Feb 03 1998 - 21:12:54 UTC