Shields Below 1D

[CRMcNeill]

When I was doing stat write-ups for X-Wing: Alliance, I came across something of a poser. The baseline ship I used for conversion was the X-Wing, with its 1D of Shields. However, several of the "lesser" starfighters in the game have lower Shield ratings than the X-Wing. If I'd gone for a straight conversion, their Shield stats would've rated 0D+1 or 0D+2, which is hardly worth having, really. The 1D MAP from shifting arcs on such weak shields would actually be more of a penalty than any protection they'd provide.

While I'm not aware of any official stats with a rating that low, I can think of at least one example under the RAW where such a circumstance might occur. A Y-Wing, with its 1D+2 Shields, could suffer Light Damage to its Shields (-1D to Shields), and be reduced to an effective 0D+2.

My interim solution at the time (at least one of my stat conversions had weak shields) was to incorporate the shields into the craft's Particle Shielding, giving the Hull a bump of +1 or +2.

Now, based on a suggestion from Totally Not An ISB Agent, there actually is a way for weak shields to be usable, albeit at much greater difficulty.

Have any of you ever used ships of less than 1D, and if so, how?
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[Whill]

Ship stats tend to have whole dice for shields, but there are some exceptions, and I do not see why there shouldn't be. In fact, your MC-19 has 1D+2 for shields.

Yes, the way I've always handled that is if you have a pipped shield stat and you lose dice in shields down to the pips (0D+1 or 0D+2), the pips can still protect the ship. Also, a precedent exists in D6 Space, where it is explicit that when you split up shield dice for allocation to fire arcs, you can split each die up into three pips.

It's funny I just posted a proposed shield tweak involving pips before seeing this.
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[CRMcNeill]

I went back and double-checked, and it's actually more of an issue than I thought. Here's a list of the ship's I've done stats for that had shields rated less than the X-Wing's (with the X-Wing provided as a reference):

Ship = X-W:A DPF Rating
X-Wing = 50
T-Wing = 20
R-41 = 30
TIE/X-M2 = 20*
TIE/X-M3 = 30*
TIE/X-M5 = 20*

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By those numbers, every ship stat in the X-Wing: Alliance topic should have a Shield rating of 0D+1 or 0D+2. Going by the X-Wing stats, the cut-off for 0D+1 would be ~16.67, and ~33.3 for 0D+2. I'm considering the following:

X-W:A DPF Rating = WEG Shields
1-17 = 0D+1
18-33 = 0D+2
34+ = 1D

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[LTAaripJasall]

You could subtract pips from the shield rating. (Minimum 0)

18-33 Shield: 1D-1
1-17 Shield: 1D-2

[CRMcNeill]

[LTAaripJasall]

I may have been so enamored with the idea of subtracting pips that I didn’t think through how it would work all the way.

Perhaps emitters that weak can only cover one arc.

[CRMcNeill]

[Mamatried]

couls a 0+1 or just a +1 to shields actyally be rules as basically as simple as adding +1 to the ship hull, and problem solved.


We do have armor with pip penalties, the scout trooper beingg one with a +2 penalty to dex, and can not shields below zero be "ruled" the same-ish.

as above the ship have 2Dhull and a 0D+2 Shileds, when attacked can we not either reduce the attack roll by 2 or add +2 to hull?

[Whill]

I agree.