Skip Ray Blastboats

[adamlumina93]

I wasn't really sure where to put this question in because it can belong in a few different sections. But I am curious how others out there run blastboats in their game. They have a very confusing stat listing, that can be interpereted a few different ways.

1. They are listed as Capital Scale (due to power output) so by the context of the rules they get an extra 6D to take damage but they are also 6D easier to hit but they are only like 25 meters long so that doesn't make very much sense.

2. If you forgo the whole capital scale thing and run them at starfighter scale they are as weak as a TIE fighter in the hull department. So they are not very effective in that use either.

Anyone have a good system they have come up with short of "not including them in the game" I do like the ships but they are very hard to deploy and use without players thinking you are out to get them.

[Dan Solo]

Although I've never used on in a game (I had a character that wanted to steal one as a minor character goal, though), I always interpreted the capital-scale status of the Skipray as being that all the power that the 'Ray put out made it show up REALLY well on targeting sensors, and therefore easy to shoot.

[Gry Sarth]

That's a good explanation. You can't really change the ship's scale without breaking the stats. You'd have to come up with a completely new set of stats if you want to change anything.

If that seems appealing to you, here's what d20 Saga converted stats would look like, Starfighter scale:

Hull: 7D+2
Shields: 6D+1

That's even more powerful than the D6 version...
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[masque]

I always just interpreted it that their weapon output is capital scale, but everything else is starfighter scale. But I don't have the stats in front of me to look at what the book actually says.
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[Grimace]

I interpreted it to be that, if they were hit, they resisted damage as if they were capital scale. If they hit something with some of their weapons, they did damage as if they were capital scale. The rest of the time, for dodge, when rolling to hit...they were starfighter scale.

Worked pretty easily for me.
*shrug*

[Gry Sarth]

I think Grimace's solution is the best one. Do everything by the book, just ignore the Dice bonus to hit the ship. Sure, it's a very powerful ship, but still feasible. And it's only just the main weapon that is Capital scale, the other ones are Starfighter scale.
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[Ankhanu]

[BreederofPuppets]

[Barrataria]

I never really understood why this ship was supposed to break the mold so much... one would think there's a minimum size for the power plants needed to run all those weapons, and that it would be bigger than 25M or whatever the BB is. And hyperdrive, even if it's limited to "only" 4 jumps.

It seems like it could be the basis of an interesting alternate fleet concept- based on carriers with these things instead of ISDs. Kind of like the old Traveller battle riders, but in this case the tenders could stay in a fairly remote place- the blastboats jump away for their raid, and then jump back to the tenders to reload/refresh.

[scott2978]

[adamlumina93]

You know how bad @$$ a blast boat carrier would be, I really do love those little guys. They are planning to give my players some wrath in my smuggler campaign
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[cheshire]

I might just have to insert something like that into my next campaign. That would be a nasty little pirate group.
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[wolfe]

We had used the B-12 Bacta transport as a Blastboat (also fighters/bombers/guntug) carrier.


Remove and refit the Bacta sphere connectors with Docking systems, add a few hatchling maintenance droids for rearming and repair and you got a carrier.

[Tem_Starrunner]

I just looked over the stats for the Skipray just to remind me what they were like. They're kind of reasonable only one weapon is capital scale as well as their hull and shield. Practicality wise they're really only good for one job disabling capital ships. Don't get me wrong they can hold their own against starfighters just fine, well better than fine. Scale wise when targeting a Skipray I always figured it was starfighter scale after all it wasn't any bigger than the YT-1300.

Hmm that Skipray carrier idea sounds pretty nasty

[wolfe]