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(Blarg D Impaler @ Jul. 23 2007,14:13)
Completely gibberish? Wow, thanks Lord Inquisitor. I know they weren't written with the skill of William Shakespeare, but I didn't think they were that bad. Do you think you could take a second, slower look at them and think about them some? Yes, they could have been done with a table, but I wasn't thinking that far ahead when I wrote them. I was looking to put finger to keyboard so I could get my thoughts down and have them critically reviewed.
I do apologise, that was completely uncalled for, and not at all what I meant. They're not complete gibberish. They're clearly very well-thought-out and detailed rules, and I thank you for such a calm and reasonable response. That's what happens if I post before getting any caffeine into me. So, sorry, and please disregard that. You sir are a gentleman and I am truly a cad.
Thank you for your apology, I appreciate it. Let's consider the matter done.
Nevertheless, while with great care and patience they can be followed, I would (probably due to my own stupidity and incompetence) find them almost impossible to use them in game, which would involve my opponent looking annoyed while I shout things like "no, wait, I can't do that after all, let's take it back".
Basically, I think you can go a lot further towards making the chassis the real formation. If the chassis sustains, then all weapons get +1 to hit. If the chassis doubles, then all weapons get -1 to hit. Then the actual weapons just have the option to shoot or marshal.
My method of presentation does make the rules hard to use, but then again I never intended for this to be the final product. What I wrote up was for perusal, discussion, and correction. I think your idea to just simply through a to-hit modifier based upon the Chassis' orders is an excellent suggestion and deserving of further review. When I get some free time (Ha ha ha ha ha!!!  Boy, free time...) I'll deep dive into your suggestion, unless somebody beats me to it.
As for Engages, I think that only the chassis can make an Engage action, and the other parts can either join in or not, depending on whether they have the action free or not.
That said, if you intend for those locations not participating in an assault to lend supporting fire, why would you ever actually use multiple body parts to assault - you can just use them to support and still get the same firefight attacks.
I hadn't thought about that. I was so busy trying to allow sections to participate or not that I completely forgot to think that their presence will mean that they are within 15cm and will therefore get to participate in assaults due to proximity.
This is going to beg the question: Do we want to allow MegaWE to be able to assault with their chassis, get the full number of attacks AND be able to fire weapons in other sections? Is this really a problem, or not? If it is, is this counteracted by the fact that the combat ability of the MegaWE can get degraded as sections are destroyed, unlike normal WE?
I don't really like the idea of the left arm initiating an assault. I think either the whole Titan goes in, or it doesn't.
And now that I think about it I have to agree. The assumption was that when the Chassis does an Engage that all of the other sections that have Engage orders will activate at the same time and go at the same time. But that is not necessarily the case and you can get situations where there could be multiple assaults against the same formations within one turn.
Incidentally, are we assuming that the enemy can just pick out a part of the titan to attack, or will there be some kind of hit location chart?
All hits, be they from firing, FF, or CC will be randomized based upon a chart:
Emperor Class Titan Damage Allocation Chart (1D6)
1- Chassis
2- Chassis
3- Carapace
4- Carapace
5- Left Arm
6- Right Arm
I think this will have to be reviewed in regards to CC hits. After all, how would a foot slogging INF stand be able to register a hit on a section of titan that is several stories over their head? Jump packs and skimmers, maybe...
That, and while the normal rules should suffice regarding infantry carried in the chassis and counter-charges, I think some clarification and restatement should be in order in case INF, AV, and non-walker WE assault the Emperor class.
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