Re: nuclear dampener

Part of thread: Re: nuclear dampener · 1 reply ↳ In reply to Re: nuclear dampener — Antony Farrell Re: nuclear dampener — Roger Malmstein


I'm sorry, Antony, I don't recall. Anyone else know?

> As I recall the description of how nuclear dampers work they project a
> series of nodes and anti-nodes on the target which effect the strong and
> weak nuclear forces depending on which nodes strike the target. Probably
> this eventually leads to the disintegrator weapons in MT.
>
> From the construction notes in FF&S it is a bit confusing whether ND
> projectors are point defence weapons (they need a beam pointer) and
> therefore can only take out one missile each per combat round (two for a
> critical success) or are area defence weapons which attack everything
> within
> their range. Any clarifications on this? In the past we house ruled this
> so
> that the ND projector projected a cone with the beam pointer at its axis
> allowing a simultaneous attack on every missile in the target hex.
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> Antony
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