Shooting missiles down?

[garhkal]

[atgxtg]

[Esoomian]

That means an 8D missile averages out to doing 14 damage to an X-wing it hits.

That makes it severely damaged and it has only a one in six chance of still being able to fight (unless you've got a suicidal pilot willing to keep fighting with an overloading ship, a disintergrating ship or ram with his weapons offline).

Severely damaged ships have taken major amounts of damage and are rendered almost useless. A severely damaged ship which is lightly damaged, heavily damaged or severely damaged again is destroyed. Roll ID to determine which system is affected:

1. Dead in space. All drives and maneuvering systems are destroyed. The vehicle is adrift in space.

2. Overloaded generator. The ship's generator is overloading; unless it's shut down, the generator will explode in ID rounds and destroy the ship.

3. Disabled hyperdrives. The ship's hyperdrives — main and backup — are damaged. The ship cannot enter hyperspace until they are fixed with a Moderate repair roll and one hour of work.

4. Disabled weapons. All weapons systems lose power. Roll 1D:

1-4: Weapons are severely damaged but may be repaired.
5-6: All weapons aboard the ship are destroyed.

5. Structural damage. The ship is so badly damaged that it begins to disintegrate. The crew has ID rounds to evacuate.

6. Destroyed. This ship disintegrates or explodes in a ball of flame
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[shootingwomprats]

Might I suggest that is what missiles are supposed to do? I always thought missiles were not powerful enough in the game. Even in today's aerial combat a missile is a VERY serious thing. If you get hit by one, your going to be lucky to escape from it and your plane is going to more than likely be destroyed. I don't mind at all if a single missile could knock out an X-Wing. Sounds about right to me. That the pilot survives let alone the ship able to limp back to base for repairs is a testament to the incredible durability of the ship.
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[garhkal]

They should be nasty.. but as was posted up in the thread by the rules shooting a ship with them is harder than using any other weapons (bar torps) cause of that damn movement penalty...
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[atgxtg]

Of course if we added in dogfighting missiles, we could get around that penalty. Such missiles could act more like modern missiles.

They would probably be fairly expensive though, which is why we don't see that much of them in Star Wars.

[garhkal]

So what do the normal ones become? Obsolete?
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[atgxtg]

[Esoomian]

[garhkal]

[Kytross]

Don't forget that to fire projectiles, like missiles and torps, you need to drop your ray shields for the round, so say good-bye to 2D of your hull code that round.

Smart missiles are amazing. Dumb missiles are not so amazing, but they are still a one-hit kill.

There's a reason they use them against cap ships and death stars. And a reason TIEs and Interceptors don't carry them.

There are a few situations to use them in fighter to fighter combat.

[vanir]

Missiles are totally usable for tactical PC pilots. Keep in mind the speed penalty is relative speed, so you get on his tail and match his speed, he manoeuvres and you manoeuvre and you get a missile shot on him at low speed penalties when you gain the initiative and a firing solution.

By default missiles move at 15 units/rnd and track by a seeker head, the fire control isn't ship based. So you can still use the genuine rules for avoiding them like hitting the throttle and turning into it to cause the missile to expend energy chasing you.

It's a matter of taking RAW and conflagurating it. You can use regular combat flight sim mechanics as a reference.

Vietnam era Sidewinders and Sparrows only had something like a 1/5 success ratio, as fighters became so much more manouevrable and bestowed with instantaneous thrust energy seeker/launch improvements never really outpaced aircraft improvements until the era of the AIM-9M and AIM-7F, even then plenty of international contemporaries were a lot better. The AIM-120B/C are pretty good, but everything else that actually acts like they do in the movies is made somewhere else and only since the 1990s.

A 1D fire control is pretty average by those lines, a 3-4D is pretty alien. An R73 Archer might be like 4D but an AIM-9M 2D and any earlier Sidewinder 1D with poorer reliability the older you go. AIM-9B era used to chase the heat absorbed by random clouds even if you had a smoking tailpipe right in front of you.

[Tupteq]

[atgxtg]

[garhkal]

Red squadron used missiles several times in the dogfight over endor.
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