Spaceship crashing into minifigs

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Spaceship crashing into minifigs

Post by yurp » Thu Jul 04, 2024 2:01 am

For some reason one of my friends fielded a size 11 spaceship in a battle. After I had almost completely shot it to pieces he wanted the ship to crash into my large (16 minifig) squad, claiming that because it was such a big ship all the minifigs should perish underneath it. I stated that as the ship is only 5" off the ground, it causes 1 MOM of crash damage to the squad, which would hardly hurt the squad at all. Both solutions seem very unsatisfactory so a What I Say Goes roll also feels wrong. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to handle this?

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Re: Spaceship crashing into minifigs

Post by stubby » Fri Jul 05, 2024 3:06 pm

Working together, it only takes eleven minifigs to catch and carry a crowdsurfing size 11" spaceship, so this isn't an autokill situation by any means.
https://brikwars.com/rules/2020/7.htm#carryingitems

What's really happening here is a collision between a large object and a squad. A lot depends on how many minifigs are under the ship when it comes crashing down. You'll measure the size of the group of minifigs struck (not the entire squad; this is location specific damage: https://brikwars.com/rules/2020/sq.htm#locationdamage ) to determine the physical opposition, and compare the number of non-disrupted minifigs struck to the ship's remaining effective size to determine the trample damage, if any.
https://brikwars.com/rules/2020/9.htm#crashes

Because of the ship's damaged size and low momentum, there most likely won't be any knockback, smash damage, or trample damage to speak of. Your squad will take a single MOM of crash damage. The real inconvenience will be starting the next turn stuck under a crashed ship. They'll need to free up some hands to lift it and move it off of themselves, or in a more brikwars fashion, combine fire at it from underneath to blow it apart into more manageable chunks.
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Re: Spaceship crashing into minifigs

Post by yurp » Wed Jul 10, 2024 5:00 am

Thanks for this clarification!
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Re: Spaceship crashing into minifigs

Post by stubby » Thu Jul 11, 2024 5:57 pm

Just trying to do good role modeling of pulling plausible sounding bullshit out of my butt whenever a rules clarification is called for. I actually wrote out three completely different answers to this question and just picked the one I liked best

(And then an hour later changed my mind and picked a different one instead)
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