Particle Shields on a Parked Ship

[garhkal]

[CRMcNeill]

By tweaking the angle of the shield to maximize its ability to deflect an incoming attack.
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[Dredwulf60]

[garhkal]

Very true Drey. Which is why some of the DM's i know who HAVE adopted that RoE die pooling rules/add on damage for great shots, CAP You in how much extra damage you can add in.. IIRC 3 were capped at HALF the weapon's normal damage (without a 6 on the wild die, so if you were shooting a 4d pistol, you cap out at adding in +12, half of 23 rounded up).
2 others capped the bonus Die you could add in to 1d LESS than the weapon's max, so that same pistol using the dice pooling method could only gain +3d..
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[CRMcNeill]

[Bren]

I'd post detailed responses, but why bother when you can just reread what CRMcNeill wrote in his last few posts. In summary,

1. You get better performance from the shields by optimizing the angle and other properties of the shields which equates to rolling better than the required difficulty.

2. If you set the required difficulty appropriately and use a modest bonus method the effective bonus will virtually never become so high as to become implausible, unbalanced, or silly.

Let's put things in perspective. Even if by the use of a Force Point and some implausible probability of great initial die rolls and repeated 6s on the wild die the shield operator obtained an enormously high total that completely negated what would otherwise have been a ship destroying result. So what? That simply means the ship has been saved for one round. But that is no guarantee of continued immunity. The next round the shield operator is even less likely to be able to roll the same statistically improbable series of die rolls. So the ship will be in danger of destruction once again.

[Dredwulf60]

[ZzaphodD]

[CRMcNeill]

I'm just spitballing here, but how about adding 2D to all Shield dice values, then treat it as Cover?
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The CRMcNeill Stat/Rule Index

[ZzaphodD]

[CRMcNeill]

So, an X-Wing with 1D Shields would now have 3D.

Attacks would be rolled initially just against the 3D, with the result applied to the chart on page 94 of the 2R&E book, paraphrased here:

Damage Roll > Shield Roll by = Damage Modifier
0-3 = Ship is completely protected.
4-8 = -4D to Damage
9-12 = -2D to Damage
13-15 = -1D to Damage
16+ = Full Damage

So the procedure is:

1). Roll weapon Damage vs. Shields to get the Damage Modifier.

2). Roll the Modifier and Subtract the result from the original Damage roll.

3). Roll the Hull Dice against the modified Damage roll, then apply the result to the Starship Damage Table.

If that makes Shields too tough, then drop the 2D Modifier to 1D instead.
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[FVBonura]

I mentioned this in another thread. If set to double dorsal/zenith (2 arcs), the upper 50% of the ship is protected by a shield dome. I would rule yes.
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