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[GM Craig]

1 CP on your first shot.

The troopers can probably handle the probe droids.

It's an automatic weapon, you can take a penalty to damage to increase chances of hitting, and affect an area. From here, it's possible to spray the entire roof, with lower damage. The damage code is for focused fire on a single target.

The guns are armoured to protect the operator, so you can't really get at the operator from here anyway.

[Niil Spaar]

No, I was referring to targeting the operators instead.  They make pretty pink clouds when they get hit.   

But seeing the previous post, I guess that's a mmot point.

[Trax]

1 CP on your first shot.

The troopers can probably handle the probe droids.

It's an automatic weapon, you can take a penalty to damage to increase chances of hitting, and affect an area. From here, it's possible to spray the entire roof, with lower damage. The damage code is for focused fire on a single target.

The guns are armoured to protect the operator, so you can't really get at the operator from here anyway.

Thanks Craig.

I don't like the idea of leaving them with a probably when Trax can handle them.  Especially if he can swing the e-web around.

Is the damage reduction to increase accuracy a 1:1 ratio (-1D damage:+1D to hit)?  If the guns are armored, I don't know if I want to lower the damage die to much.  If I sprayed the entire roof what kind of damage would I be doing?

[GM Craig]

The bonus works like this: You can increase the chances of hitting and/or attack a larger area. Every +1D to your hit chance reduces damage by 1D. Also, every 5' hex you attack reduces the damage by 1D.  Single target, normal attack, 8D damage.
Attack a 5' hex, normal attack = 7D damage
Attack a 5' hex, +1D attack = 6D damage
Attack two 5' hexes, +1D attack = 5D damage

etc.

So you can increase odds of hitting and area attacked independently, but any such increase reduces the damage by 1D.

For any targets in the attacked zone, they all roll defence against your single attack.

You can attack non-contiguous areas, but each non-contiguous area counts as a separate action, so are not simultaneous.

Attack 1st 5' hex, +1D to hit = 6D damage and 1D MAP -plus-
Attack 2nd 5' hex, +1D to hit = 6D damage and 1D MAP

Make sense?

[Jex]

What scale is the E-web?

[Trax]

I'm pretty sure the e-web is character.  The gunner stations would be as well correct?

[GM Craig]

Correct.

For the record, the uplink was speeder scale. You got some good damage rolls

[Trax]

Even spraying the area, would the gunners themselves would still have full protection/cover from the armor?

I'm leaning more towards just taking the map and attacking 2 twice doing full damage and hope I can take two stations down.  With the armor, I'm thinking it's likely the guns will be rolling close to 6D to resist damage so I don't want to lower my damage output much if at all.

What does everyone else think?

[GM Craig]

The gunners themselves have the D&D equivalence of full cover.

[Niil Spaar]

Yup, take two of the guns down to give us a blind spot for the shuttle to approach, then blast the crap out of the other two guns.  Even if the other two gunners can't see us, they can still leave the emplacements and use small arms/grenades against the grounded shuttle.

[Jex]

Remember the far guns won't have much cover for crew, if I recall correctly the gun armour/shielding was mostly in a forward arc for each emplacement.

[GM Craig]

You weren't sure though if the guns could swivel 360.

[Trax]

Which I'm guessing we now know they can?

But yeah, the original plan was to take two of them out while their 'back' was to me.

[Trax]

Trax's actions?  Light up a smoke and take a few long drags

Damn that was a thing of beauty.  But it looks like I broke the e-web.  Are the power generators pretty non-standard, or at least easy to come by?  I'm wondering if we should just disconnect the gun and run.

[GM Craig]

You can use different power generators. The gun is the important part.