OK, let me see if I have this right... I have the ELF gun (images of Santa loading a thin, short guy into a cannon!). It fire it as a bombardment cannon, with a strength still to be announced. The net result is 4 hits. Instead of applying these hits, which also do not affect shields, I then roll 4 lance shots. It is against a Chaos cruiser, with armour 5+. Instead of a 4+ as normal for lances, I roll against armour, and additionally, I need to roll higher then the armour, in this case I roll four dice and need sixes.
Now, I get a little lost. Suppose I roll 3, 5, 6, 6. What happens?
I would guess that the 3 misses as normal. Does the 5 strike the shield, but would not hit the actual ship? Do the sixes take down the shields?
Any sixes that hit the actual ship, ie are higher than the armour and dont take out a shield, cause an automatic critical.
OK, now my thoughts...
First up, welcome to the game. Second, welcome to the boards.
You should be aware that, in general, Gothic players are reluctant to accept new weapons. New vessels are fine, but new weapons are always criticised. The reasoning being that the three types (ordnance, lances and weapons batteries) pretty much cover anything that you could imagine. Does it throw out something phyisical? Weapons batteries. Is it an energy weapon? Lances. Is it slow and/or manned? Ordnance.
Secondly, your gun is actually going to end up being less effective than normal - not that I have a problem with this. The reaosn being that the bombardment cannon rolls as a normal weapons battery. That means that even with a strenght 8, you will normally roll 5 or 6 dice (although, off the top of my head, I cant remember now if you roll a dice for each point of strength or use the weapon firepower table).
If you roll 6 dice, and need a 4+ (standard bombardment cannon) to hit, you will get 3 hits. Against a Chaos cruiser, which is fairly standard and has armour 5+, with those 3 ELF hits you will get (on average) a single damaging hit, which will take out a single shield!
I like the idea though. But, would you need the ion storm? Would the gun not actually be more effective in space, where there will be almost dispersion on the electrons or other impacts on the way to the target?
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