Updated Test Chart, Woes

What's Wrong?, John S. Cheung

Well, that weekend could have gone better. On Friday our (relatively new) furnace went out and had to be repaired - twice. Then I shuffle up from the basement at midnight on Saturday to go to bed; only to notice that there's a brand new waterfall in my front living room.

One of the kids left the tap running on an upstairs sink with a slow drain. So untold gallons of (hot) water flooded the entire bathroom before soaking through the floor and then flooding a good bit of the living room beneath. We now have 2 industrial dehumidifiers and a dozen high-speed fans about the house drying everything out for another couple of days. After that we'll start the repairs.

At least the basement is quiet.

I did manage to get a few things done on the game despite all this. Here's an updated comparative test chart to use on the reference sheet for the tests:

And the notes/instructions:

To-Hit Rolls

Normal Shooting:

                        Compare the Attacker’s BS to the Target’s Evasion (Ev).

                        +1 Ev if the Target is Concealed.

                        +1 Ev if the Target is Gone-To-Ground (GtG).

                        +1 Ev if the Target is Outside the Attacker’s Awareness (Aw) Range.

            Close-Combat Shooting:

                        Compare the Attacker’s BS to the Target’s Ev.

                        +1 Ev if the Target is Concealed and/or GtG.

6+6 Rule

            Impossible Shots:

                        Rolling a 6, and then another 6, always hits the target.

            Normal Shots:

                        Rolling a 6, and then another 6, lets the Attacker allocate those hits.

            Automatic Shots:

                        Target is hit automatically. Rolling a 6 lets the attacker allocate those hits.

Armor Saves

            Normal & Close-Combat Shooting:

                        Compare Defender’s Armor (Ar) to attacking weapon’s AP.

                        If Target has no Armor (Ar = 0), use Ev (with modifiers) instead.

            Melee Attacks:

                        Compare Defender’s Ar to attacking weapon’s AP.

                        If Target has no Armor, Target is penetrated automatically.

            1+6 Rule For Automatic Saves:

                        If the Defender rolls a 1 on his save, an Attacker roll of 6 will always penetrate.

Obvious & Non-Obvious Rules Changes:

1. Range bands are out. We're going to say that if the target isn't within you're Awareness range, it's a long range shot. I'm doing this to simplify the unit profiles and reduce the amount of stuff that you have to remember.
2. You won't get more than a 1-point Evasion bonus in Close Combat. Even if you're GtG.
3. No more Auto-Miss if you roll a 1 followed by another 1. It's a game slower, and isn't nearly as important as being able to get off the odd impossible shot with a 6+6.
4. If you would normally hit automatically, you just have to roll a 6 to allocate the hit.
5. Switched up the rule for impossible armor penetrations from don't roll 2 ones in a row to letting the attacker try and roll a 6 if the defender rolls a 1. Not as elegant maybe, but I think that it will be more fun.

Stuff I'm Considering:

I'm starting to wonder if we should go to a more finely grained 6+n system. Such that if you need to roll a 7 to-hit, you would need to roll a 6+2. While for a 9, you would need to roll a 6+4.  Dunno yet. But I'm not going to be making any changes here anytime soon. Just thinking about it. :)

Thoughts?