Y-Wings/X-Wings angle deflectors

[worfbacca]

Why would the Y-Wings/Xwings angle their deflectors double front during the trench run if those large turbolaser batteries would just rip through them? Unfortunately we never see one of the big guns hit the starfighters.. or can they survive a few shots from it?
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[garhkal]

Maybe they felt angling them that way, would possibly bounce off the shots??
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[CRMcNeill]

Technically, they didn’t angle them (the exact quote was “switch your deflectors on, double front"). However, WEG doesn’t really have a mechanism to represent doubling the front shield in a meaningful way. Y-Wings, for example, have 1D+2 in Shields (or 5 pips), so they could conceivably split their Shield Dice four ways: +1 to Left, Right and Rear, then +2 to Front. It’s technically “double front”, but only boosts the Y’s combined soak to 5D.
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[FVBonura]

I rule Double Front as two arcs rotated 45 degrees to cover the forward 180 degrees. My players also use "Double Zenith" when on the ground to form a two-arc dome over the ship. As long as one arc is 25% of an ellipsoid, I don't care about the angle it is projected.

Also when calculating the Shield Die Score, I round up pips as I rule the closer to a sphere the shields are, the less energy it uses to form the shield's shape.
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[garhkal]

[CRMcNeill]

Y-Wing Hull is 4D+1. Also, IIRC, you don’t combine pips into D under the circumstances, so technically the Y-Wing’s soak would be 4D+3, not 5D.
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[garhkal]

If the hull is 4d+1 (above the 4d i thought), and shields are 1d+2, wouldn't that combine to 5d+3?
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[Whill]

Since the game is interpreting the universe of (primarily) the films into a game setting, maybe the Y-Wing should be statted better to reflect the film dialogue. A very easy way to make "double" possible would be to give the Y-Wing a Shields dice code that equates to an even number of pips, such as making it 2D or 1D+1.

What the film suggests to me is that the laser towers in the trench only shot at the Rebel fighters from the front, so they moved all shields to the forward arcs. Then they had to even the shields back out so they covered the rear too ("stabilize your rear deflectors") when Vader started chasing fighters in the trench and shooting them down.

Although, Death Star towers from the front would stop firing completely to not accidentally hit Vader and his wingmen, so the Rebels probably could have went "double rear".
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[garhkal]

Unless they kept their front shields up, since they feared they might run into the side of the trench.
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