Starship Damage & Repairs

MA-3PO · Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 1:46 am Post subject: Starship Damage & Repairs

I wanted to clarify some things about SS damage to make sure I've been running it right.

Let's say the ship is in combat and takes damage. It is heavily damaged and I roll a D6 to determine which system is damaged. I roll a 6 so the ship is now at -2 Move.

Next round the ship is lightly damaged. Since it was heavily damaged before, the ship is now severly damaged. I roll a D6 and get a 3. The ships hyperdrives are disabled.

After the battle the crew is repairing the ship. According to the rules the Hyperdrive will take a Moderate repair roll and one hour of work. The sublight drive on the other hand, will take a moderate repair roll, plus 15% of the ship's cost in parts. The time to repair the sublight will take 15 min, one hour, one day, etc...

Now the fun begins....they decide to fix the hyperdrive and succeed. Does the ship now go from being severly damaged to heavily damaged? What if they fixed the sublight drive first?

I guess my question is: ships have different damage levels sort of like how characters have different wound levels. However the repair skills only list rules for fixing systems. For example, does the crew have to make a roll to repair a ship from heavily damaged to lightly damaged or just worry about fixing the affected systems?

Sorry, maybe this post should have been in the Rules Forum?

Xzil Maru · Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 4:09 am Post subject:

I figure that they just need to worry about the systems, and each system that they repair requires them to deal with damaged superstructure as well. When successful the ship improves one wound level.

Does anyone know if there are any expanded rules on this?
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Loc Taal · Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject: Re: Starship Damage & Repairs

garhkal · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:58 am Post subject:

Lord Aramus · Sub-Lieutenant Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 61

wow

I guess I am a mean GM.

when ships get damaged in my game, I consider the primary effect to be the damage levens and the secondary effect is equipment failure.

I allow my players to fix subsystems in combat or shortly after, things like the shields and hull rating, however, require an overhaul to repair.

Not only is this realistic, but its allowed for some very neat "trying to find a repair base" games.

for repairs to the chassis, I charge 25% of the ships NEW value to repair, unless it is something very common like the YT-1300
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Argamoth · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 234

I think I'd have the PCs make an extra roll to repair the armor, at the expense of some materials/credits, and further rolls to repair the systems. There's a difference between the hull and the guts of a ship.

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Grimace · Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:54 pm Post subject:

Boy, I could have sworn I saw something on the ISB Intercepts concerning this, but my initial perusal turned up nothing.

Soooo...

I'll tell you what I *think* I remember reading, seeing as how I can't provide the specific mention.

When repairing items, you must repair them in the reverse order that they were damaged. Each item thus repaired reduces the "damage level" of the ship to what it was prior to that hit.

So therefore, in your example, the group would have to fix the Hyperdrive first. Upon fixing that the ship would be reduced to Heavily Damaged. Then, once they were able to fix the regular drive system, the ship would be back to Undamaged.

Mind you, this is from memory, but I could swear that I've read it in one of the ISB Intercepts or something of that sort.

Ejacobs · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 12:12 am Post subject:

I like Grimace's answer barring any other official responses. It makes sense in a way that a ship's lesser systems can not be repaired until a higher level system is repaired. In this case, the hyperdrive motivator is acting up/damaged requiring it to be fixed before the ship's electrical systems allows the shields to be repaired. When I say it makes sense, I say that in simple game logic terms, not actual repair terms.

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Ray · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 2:31 am Post subject:

"Damn it! What's taking so long?"

"Well, I gotta fix the Flux Capacitor and Overbooster regulartors before I can even try adjusting the dynamic flow control. And then balance everything. Not to mention the fact that you still haven't gotten proper replacement parts... And that's just the Hyperdrive."

"Proper replacement parts? I got you Duct Tape and Bailing Wire, didn't I?"

"We also need chewing gum."

"You think I'm made of credits???"

garhkal · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:16 am Post subject:

Too true. I also like Grimice's idea. Though who would keep track of it... you or the players?
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Jedi Skyler · Moff Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 8440

Both ought to be. The GM, so that he knows what kind of modifiers need to be used when rolling (not to mention curtailing unscrupulous players who'd try to snowball him), and the players, so that THEY know what kind of modifiers ought to be used- and in case the GM missed something, which is always possible.

But I'd think both players and GM would want to keep track just so they know what the heck is going on, but that's just mho.

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