wpp2

d20 Starship Combat: Star Trek style

<< < (4/4)

Polycarp:

GhostmanWasn't the Defiant pretty much a state-of-the-art premium spacecraft specifically built for

operations the standard fare Federation starships weren't suitable for, though?

Pretty much, which is why I admitted it probably wasn't the best comparison. There are, as I

mentioned, at least some other examples of small vs. large in DS9, though they're not common.

QuoteAs for Star Wars, those were large scale battles featuring whole fleets of the small fighters (on

both sides), with the rebels also bringing some larger ships along for support. Blowing up the Death

Stars were "surgical" strikes that relied on exploiting a known weak spot, and the sacrifice of many

fighter pilots just to slip ONE of them past the defenses. That's an entirely different kind of scenario

from a single small spacecraft taking on a capital ship alone.

Point taken, but it does at least recommend ways to play small vs. huge encounters. While Luke may

not have been able to reach the Death Star alone, once he had reached it the Death Star's ability to

"fight back" on its own was extremely limited. Far from being able to bring all its weapons systems

to bear on the smaller craft, it seems like it could hardly use any of them even had its commander

been aware of the danger Luke posed, and it relied primarily on its fighters for close-in defense. On

the flip side, however, Luke's ability to harm the "terrain" was negligible, apart from the plot-central

vulnerability. The sequence, in game terms, looks more like a PC (Luke) fighting opponents (Darth

and other fighter pilots) in hostile terrain (the Death Star) in order to attack/damage a specific

objective on the capital ship (the exhaust port). The larger ship gets "attacks" in the form of any

weapons systems it can bring to bear, but it's not really the primary opponent even if its destruction is

the ultimate objective. We're not actually comparing the stats of the Death Star and Luke's X-wing as

if they were opponents; the Death Star is treated as if it were a backdrop, not a foe.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page

of 1d20 Starship Combat: Star Trek style

9/7/2015http://www.thecbg.org/index.php/topic,210232.15/wap2.html

wpp2

Documents