Hitting moving targets?

[Lord Ben]

Is the difficulty higher for hitting moving targets? Is an Xwing moving all out harder to hit than a YT-1300 moving at base speed? I looked in the book and can't find any modifiers.

[Gry Sarth]

There are no official rules that apply modifiers for fast moving targets, though I think they should be used in a game.

If you're standing there and someone goes by zooming in a swoop and you take a shot at them, it definetly should be harder. However if you're in a spaceship battle, and you and your target are moving at gazillions km/h, you're actually almost static in relation to one another, so there should be no modifier.

[Lord Ben]

I found one that listed diff modifiers for hitting moving targets with missiles and bombs. Anything moving space 6+ is +20 to the diff... ouch.

Heavy Proton Bombs don't look so great anymore.

[garhkal]

Yup. the only weapons that get movement penalties, by the book are missiles/torps and bombs. Though in ground combat, stormies DO get a +2d to hit people moving at 11 or more due to their MFAS system in their helmets.
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[Kehlin Yew]

but how high does that boost actually pertain to? say you have a wookie, or some other really fast race, moving at all out speed which i believe is x2 high speed, and high speed on a wookie is like 12, right?

so, would it be even easier for the trooper to hit something moving at such a godly speed?

and if they get a bonus if you moving fast, thn walk and dodge.. >_>
seems simple enough, now if i could just dodge all ten shots at once...

[KageRyu]

Simple, easy, and effective house ruling: Add the speed code the target is travelling at to the base difficulty.
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[garhkal]

Ohh.. i like. Good idea Kage.
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[KageRyu]

Thank you. It was a spot ruling I had to make a few times, and just to keep the game flowing I threw that ruling down, and it stuck. Of course, I still use the old Speed Dice from 1st edition, so it has a much more significant impact in my games (3D+2 can producs much harder results than just 8). Players don't seem to mind too much though.
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