Starfighter hitting difficulty

[Tupteq]

[jmanski]

but a melee weapons base difficulty is a set difficulty to use and flying a ship doesn't have an official difficulty to use, IIRC. I guess you could put a base difficulty to it, which really doesn't change things all that much.
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[Naaman]

I see, I see. Does it often come up that a stationary ship is. targeted? The way I see it, if something is easier to hit, it would be so statiionary or not, which is the same as a penalty to a dodge roll.

I would have to turn this over in my head for a while to come up with something I like for stationary targets....

[garhkal]

Most of the time ships (or vehicles) don't get dodge/vehicle maneuvering, is when they are shutdown via ion damage, or are on the tarmack.
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[Naaman]

So the difficulty would be based on the weapon, then... which has nothing to do with the target...

[Leon The Lion]

The basic difficulty is based on the range at which the attack takes place, dependant on the weapon used, yes.

This basic difficulty is then modified by the scale of the target, regardless of weather the target dodges or not.
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[Naaman]

Well, the problem I see with using an intermediate scale modifier, in this case is two fold:

A bigger transport would suffer less damage than a fighter from the same weapon... it would be like having free shields of 2D (or whatever the modifier is).

And of course the modifiier would need to apply even when two transports are battling each other.

So maybe you need to use armor class to achieve what you want, applying a size penalty.

[garhkal]

[Naaman]

Yeah, so... other than just assigning a modifier to each ship, how do we address the size differential issue?

The only other alternative I can see is to use the "low end" of the difficulty scale (for example, if an attack calls for a moderate roll, an 11 would succeed on a big ship, but you need a 15 to hit the small one.)

[garhkal]

As it sits now, we would have to make up at least 2 new rules or flat out modify every ship in the books..
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[Naaman]

Yep. I would prefer to rewrite the ships, myself.

[garhkal]

You do realize there is over 200 ships in the great ship book..
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[Tupteq]

[Leon The Lion]

[Naaman]