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I'd offer comments or suggestions...or ask questions...but this probably won't make enough sense to me until I see the process in action. From what I do understand, though, it sounds good. I assume it can be made to work for individual characters, too? Because what you have there seems to mostly apply to ships and such.

Format for listing combat stats:
This should be appended to posts declaring new Mechanics and Characters or for every post in a battle. Dark red indicates a variable field to be filled in by the player. Green indicates a standard formatting marker.


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FORMAT:
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hp: - [, ], [, ] - [, ]

Regions:
hp, () - () [] - , () [] - ;

Critical Locations:
[] hp, () -



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EXAMPLE:
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Elennim Patrol Ship 300 hp

Regions:
Bridge Section 100 hp, Elennium Armor Plating (3:2:1), Reactive Plasma Shield (2:2:2) - Fore 200mm Beam-Projectile Turret (Beam 0:1:5 Projectile 3:3:0) [Medium, Long], Calinehta Autonomous Weapon Bay (1:2:3) [Extreme, Extreme] - 20 second per round recharge;

Starboard Wing 100 hp, Elennium Armor Plating (3:2:1), Reactive Plasma Shield (2:2:2) - Fore Starboard 1000mm Bombard Beam-Projectile Cannon (Beam 0:1:5 Projectile 2:4:0) [Long, Long], 200mm Beam-Projectile Turret (Beam 0:1:5 Projectile 3:3:0)[Medium, Long], Calinehta Autonomous Weapon Bay (1:2:3) [Extreme, Extreme]; Starboard 200mm Beam-Projectile Turret (Beam 0:1:5 Projectile 3:3:0)[Medium, Long], Calinehta Autonomous Weapon Bay (1:2:3) [Extreme, Extreme] - 20 second per round recharge;

Port Wing 100 hp, Elennium Armor Plating (3:2:1), Reactive Plasma Shield (2:2:2) - Fore Port 1000mm Bombard Beam-Projectile Cannon (Beam 0:1:5 Projectile 2:4:0) [Long, Long], 200mm Beam-Projectile Turret (Beam 0:1:5 Projectile 3:3:0) [Medium, Long], Calinehta Autonomous Weapon Bay (1:2:3) [Extreme, Extreme]; Port 200mm Beam-Projectile Turret (Beam 0:1:5 Projectile 3:3:0) [Medium, Long], Calinehta Autonomous Weapon Bay (1:2:3) [Extreme, Extreme] - 20 second per round recharge;

Critical Locations:
Bridge [Bridge Section] 100 hp, Elennium Armor Plating (3:2:1), Reactive Plasma Shield (2:2:2) - 4x Mirai Marines

Starboard Fighter Hangar [Starboard Wing] 50 hp, Elennium Armor Plating (3:2:1), Reactive Plasma Shield (2:2:2) - 4x DV-309F/A Deathviper

Port Fighter Hangar [Port Wing] 50 hp, Elennium Armor Plating (3:2:1), Reactive Plasma Shield (2:2:2) - 4x DV-309F/A Deathviper

Main Hold [Bridge Section] 100 hp, Elennium Armor Plating (3:2:1), Reactive Plasma Shield (2:2:2) - 16x Mirai Marines


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- Armor Rating is listed (Ductility biggrin ensity:Flexibility).

- Weapon Rating is listed (Impact razz enetration:Splash).

- The Weapon or Armor Rating for a particular field may be 0, making it acceptable to have ratings of (0:0:5) to maximize a particular field.

- When listing Firing Arcs, not all arcs need be listed, only the arcs a Region's weapons can target. Also, excluding a term when listing a Firing Arc means that the listed arc includes all of the terms for that field.
- Ex: Fore Port = Fore Port Dorsal and Fore Port Ventral.

- After the Firing Arc is listed, the hyphen "-" precedes special rules or additional information

I chose each player rolling three 50-sided dice so that the three pairs of one die from each player could be added up easily to determine &#xHi;t, Damage, and Absorption. Then based on the kind of numbers that would produce for damage, I decided to give all Units 300 hp. The fact of the matter is, since we aren't actually rolling physical dice, we don't need to employ any tricks to reduce the numbers of dice we use or make do with fewer sided dice. However, I just checked and discovered that there is no way to roll a 50-sided die, so we will have to go back to my original plan of averaging the 2 hundred-sided dice. I will edit the Combat System post appropriately.

I would rather do averages myself because in my mind that is more accurate and not that much more complicated. It's just doing things in reverse ordering, adding then halving rather than halving then adding.

With the shields, I thought about doing it your way or something similar but decided against it primarily for these two reasons:
1) I wanted to keep things as simple as possible. I started out by defining only weapons and armor. It was simplest to make shields a kind of armor, rather than introducing a third aspect.
2) My system more closely models the way shields are used in Star Wars. For me, this was the deciding argument. In Star Wars, most Deflector shields are projected just below the ship's exterior to reinforce the hull and are only expanded when there is a hull breach in order to maintain the integrity of the ship. Star Wars shield technology supports this approach because most Star Wars shields are actually energy fields, not discrete barriers. To get discrete barriers with Star Wars shields, I think you need to project the shield against or between something. Probably the most well known barrier-type shield is the Gungan shield from Episode I. That shield was mostly likely using gravity or possibly the atmosphere or some secondary field generated by the Shield Generator or its power source. It is one of the exceptions to the general rule that shields are more energy funnels that attenuate and dissipate incoming energy or hinder particle movement throughout the shielded area.

And also, with how I've structured the combat system, it would be acceptable to define a ship's shield as a Region that must be targeted and destroyed before any other part of the ship can be targeted. But of course while this would assign hp to the shield, it would have to share hp with all the other Regions of the ship. It's a trade off and I think that's exactly what it should be. In previous incarnations of the Guild, energy shields were quite popular and prevalent, but in Star Wars shields were primarily considered temporary replacements or poor alternatives to good solid hull plating. Keep in mind also that I want to make it pretty easy for Units of the same scale to destroy each other because that again shifts focus to strategy. I also want to avoid god Units as much as possible so I tried to engineer the system so no one can have a significant advantage based on how he wrote the description of a unit.

There should be some sort of character stats involved, like Skill, Strength, Force Adaptivity, ect. Kinda like Fire Emblem.

makes sense, but still would like to see it implimented

OK, let me see if I get this.

Valefor-class Attack Ship 300
Regions:
Fore Section 100 hp, Gundanium Plating (2, 1, 2), Sith Energy Shielding (1,2,2) Fore Polaron Beam Emitter (2,3,0) [medium, long], Fore Torpedo Tube (Skipper 3,2,0 Photon 2,0,3) [long, extreme]

Mid Section 100 hp, Gundanium Plating (2,1,2) Sith Energy Shielding (1,2,2)

Aft Section 100 hp, Gundanium Plating (2,1,2) Sith Energy Shielding (1,2,2) Aft Polaron Beam Emitter (2,3,0) [medium, long]

Critical Locations:
Bridge [Fore Section] 150 hp, Gundanium Plating (2,1,2) Sith Energy Shielding (1,2,2) - 2 Elites

Main Engineering [Mid Section] 150 hp Gundanium Plating (2,1,2) Sith Energy Shielding (1,2,2) - 5 Sith Stormtroopers