Taming the Bulletproof Wookie...

[Kayle Skolaris]

Flechette Launchers, especially with anti-vehicular loads, should put down even the most unruly Wookiee fairly succinctly.

[Krayt]

Good idea kyle! Never thought of that before.
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[garhkal]

[Kayle Skolaris]

Nothing puts a Wookie (or an Esoomian or a Rancor) on the floor faster than a Ubrikkian RTechApp Man Trap. With a variable field strength of 5D to 15D, it WILL put you on the floor.

[Cool McCool]

It's not too hard...

6 Stormtroopers, combining their skill = +3D Blaster (I gave them 4D Blaster, 5D (s) Rifle, -1D Armour, so total skill is 7D) and +3D Damage (8D total).

8D is enough to make a Wookie bleed.

Mind you, this relies on two things:

1) Using the "Blue Book" combined actions table

2) The Stormtroopers must have a comm link back to HQ, in contact with an Officer, who can Command them to combine their fire. (Comm jammers were very useful.)

edit: One other thing: Stormtroopers never Dodge. I gave them 3D STR (makes sense), so that they could rely on their armour to pull them through. Best example of this: the opening boarding action in Star Wars.
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Still funky after all these years

[Pel]

Nah, just send in one of those Acme wind-up female Wookiee robots. Bugs Bunny uses 'em all the time!
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Aha!

[Kayle Skolaris]

Since this is a family board, we won't get into the specifics of what he uses them for...

[thomasgroendal]

My solution to this part of the game was to power up the weapons as such...
+2d damage outright to all energy weapons,
+1d to all physical weapons.
I did this because all previous campaigns I played in had been house ruled by throwing in "new" technologies etc, ruining the flavor, and the idea that you could shoot a wookie from an inch away in the face with a sporting blaster, and he wouldn't even sneeze bothers me.

The overall result was that the campaign took on a more sinister less saturday morning cartoon feel.

People worried about being shot instead of laughing at it, and armor makes the difference between a wound and an incapacitation when a 3d person is hit by a blaster rifle, and pistols become good enough for an armored person to fear them. Otherwise, why would anyone ever dodge?

It also makes lightsabers very tasty weapons, and explains why you would plink with a blaster rifle instead of shooting with an uzi...

My 2 cents,
Tom

[garhkal]

[bonds0097]

How about the optional deadliness rules in the SpecForce Handbook? They're on page 57 and 58 of the book. One of the suggestions is a damage bonus based on how much you exceed your tohit roll by.

That way, you don't have to increase damge on all weapons across the board and instead reward skill. Plus, combined with the combined actions rule, a group of people shooting at a single target would be able to cause massive damage.

JB

[jmanski]

That's evil.

I like it.
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[thomasgroendal]

[garhkal]

IIRC someone elsewhere made a rule that used the deadliness from RoE, but capped the extra damage to the weapons max. So if you shot someone with a blaster pistol (4 damage) you could gain a max of 24 extra points of damage from that rule.... though bonuses from combined fire still counted.
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[Ejacobs]

IMHO none of the rules require a change. If a 5D blaster hits a wookiee with STR 6D and the wookiee str wins, then the shooter has done 0D worth of damage. The wookiee is stunned (getting shot, even if it isn't deadly, still hurts). The wookiee can take as many stun shots as he has STR D, in this case 6, before he gets knocked unconscious.

As for the ST and Imp officer thingie, ST's don't need officers to coordinate their fire, they have the luxury of being able to do that on their own.

We never had the problem of bulletproof wookiees in our group, just toasty ones.

E

[Camero]

I like that idea, but for the Stun rule to take effect you actually have to do damage to the Wookie. Just being hit does not equal a stun, if the STR roll beats the damage roll then "there is no effect" (shooting a wookie 6 times with a nerf gun would not knock him unconcious) but if the damage roll wins even just barely (1-3) then that is a Stun result that can then accumulate to knock them out.

So we still have the problem that most Wookies are buffer than most damage rolls.

Going off the multiple Stun Rule idea, one could just equip the Stormtroopers or badies with repeating blasters or the one or two carbines and blaster rifles that do repeating blaster fire. The Espo Riot gun, a blaster rifle that I like very much, has these special rules