Newbish n00b questions, MkII

[stubby]

Does a Heavy suffer recoil when Compensating with a 2" weapon?

No. A Compensating Heavy acts as if he were Size 2", so there would be no recoil.

How would a double weapon work? I'm talking about something like a quarterstaff or a double-bladed lightsabre beamsword. It's not a polearm like 2-Handed weapons are, so it typically isn't used with reach, but it's designed to have more impact than simply a pair of 1-handed weapons.

It would act as a standard Heavy Weapon, unless you're going all crazy Darth Maul style, in which case it would be a Heroic Heavy Weapon.

So would I need to pay CP as for a second weapon mode, or could I just say "I'm setting my blaster to Stun for the high-value target, and then back to Kill for all the bodyguards"?

The effects are basically the same either way, so there's no sense making the CP more complicated as well.

the increase in damage is offset by a higher use rating. In almost any situation, you're better off just using one of the base weapons, but if you're going to sperg over your desert eagle needing to do 1d6+3 damage, then go right ahead and bring that UR up to 6. You know what else has a UR of 6? a size 4 cannon, with 4d6 damage.

That's a good point - with the drawback balancing out the benefit, it may be better to have it as a +0 CP modification for those of us who use CP.

I want to do this for all modifications as much as possible. You pay for benefits with equivalent drawbacks rather than with CP.

Since a unit with the Compensating specialty acts as a turret, would they also benefit from having the Gunnery specialty in regards to boosting skill with a "mounted" weapon?

Nope. It's acting as a Size 2" Creature rather than a turret, there's nothing mounted about it.

[Natalya]

IVhorseman was banned for saying "sperg" in his post.

[Zupponn]

IVhorseman was banned for saying "sperg" in his post.

But, so did you.

[Gungnir]

IVhorseman was banned for saying "sperg" in his post.

But, so did you.

Different context.
Though, I wasn't aware that was a bannable offense.

[IVhorseman]

Morty's got my back

[stubby]

Is there actually a master list of all bannable offenses? I did a site search, and besides the stuff in the list of List of Automatic Ban Offenses all that I can find besides the word up there was: shipping other forum members in fanfiction, gifs of guys pooping, and running a joke into the ground.

The list of automatic bans are just specific examples of the more general rules laid out in Thread 2.

Can a unit with Armor use Thrust movement? I was gonna use this for statting out my Starships Troopers Mobile Infantry (as per the Roughnecks incarnation) - they have Heavy Power Armor, but also jump-jets for when they need that extra boost to reach advantageous terrain.

"On the bounce, Apes!"

Yes. For simplicity's sake, Thrust is universal, and not affected by Slow Movement or Size or Armor Rating or anything else.

[Tzan]

My weird penis pajamas are boneriffic against fire.

[Gungnir]

My weird penis pajamas are boneriffic against fire.

Technically, fire is boneriffic against them. Or do you mean your pajamas are somehow slower while burning?

[Tzan]

In order to have boneriffic pajamas you need to apply a chemical to them.
That happens in the the past, so you say that your pajamas have been boneriffic.

If I said that your brain was boneriffic against logic, you wouldn't then say that:
Technically, logic is boneriffic against your brain.

[stubby]

* Does switching weapons cost any Move inches? I know picking up or dropping equipment items has no cost, so I'm thinking "no".

We used to have a Move cost for holstering weapons rather than just dropping them, but it was one of those "who cares" things that just ended up getting cut.

It's not instant though, for sure. You can't Parry with a weapon that's not already in hand, or switch weapons around at will when you're already in Close Combat.

I've noticed a lot of people seem to think that it's OP to give a single fig multiple specialties, but I respectfully disagree. Here's why:

I agree to a degree, especially for specialties that you're using all the time - using one cannibalizes the opportunity to use the other one. For abilities that are intermittent and special-case, like the Med-chanik, it's much less common that he'll have opportunities to use both abilities on the same turn and be forced to make a choice. And in particular, loading the abilities on a Hero instead of one of the other minifigs ends up being a cheap way to make it hard to target your specialists.

But the problem isn't that stacking specialties is OP, it's that it's just lame a lot of the time. I'm not going to make a rule against it because there's a lot of potential for thematic coolness in something like a Medikal Hero, etc. But there's also a lot of potential for just fielding dudes who feel munchkinny and lame.

[stubby]

Lameness to the munchkin degree can be often remedied by a grenade to the face of the offending minifig and a smack to the offending player.

Redshirted! It's not like all those other minifigs aren't still around after you took their specialties away.

[stubby]

* I know Explosives shot out of a launcher aren't affected by distance penalties to damage (that grenade/mortar shell/rpg is gonna ruin somebody's day), but what about independently launched Rockets (I'm thinking the Rockets described in Chaper 8 are something like a one-shot disposable M72 LAW or Panzerfaust, right)?

Weapons that rely on momentum for their damage do less damage as they reach the end of their momentum. But an explosive either goes off or it doesn't; it can be sitting completely still and still do full damage. As long as the rocket reaches its target and goes off successfully, it's full damage.

* Chapter 6.3 mentions Dual-wielding a couple times as an example of a Heroic Feat - "Dual-wielding heavy machineguns" and "Dual-wielding heavy axes". So how would that work in game terms, exactly? Do I roll my Heroic Feat first, and then:
IF successful: make 2 Attack rolls.
IF unsuccessful: make only 1 attack roll as normal?

Or do both attack fail if I fail the Heroic Feat roll?

Like all Feats, the consequences of failure are up to you and your enemies. Depending on the situation on the ground, for the machineguns I might say loss of control, hits wrong targets. Heavy axes, too heavy, disrupts self in embarrassing fashion.

[Gungnir]

Could the Gunnery bonus be applied to big mounted melee weapons, like a siege-level battering ram, a Rock Raider's massive drill, or a mech's giant arm-sword?

I think that only applies to weapons the minifig actually lays his hands on, like mounted machine guns or ship cannons.

[loafofcheese]

The exact nature of Gunnery Support depends on the Weapon and the technology involved. The Gunners may be calculating trajectories, feeding ammunition belts, establishing target locks, or offering prayers to the gods of metal and mayhem.

So what exactly do you propose these gunners do to boost the giant melee weapon, it might work for a battering ram with having them actually push it, but for a giant drill or hammer, where are you gonna put them.

[loafofcheese]

So what exactly do you propose these gunners do to boost the giant melee weapon, it might work for a battering ram with having them actually push it, but for a giant drill or hammer, where are you gonna put them?

At the controls, of course. For a giant drill, they'd be monitoring RPM, adjusting speed and power output, viewing spectrum-analysis-data to look for weak points in the target, etc. For a massive mech-hammer, they'd be making adjustments to kinetic transfer actuators, managing pneumatic accelerators, and siphoning off recoil energy to be absorbed through the inductor coils.

In other words, they'd still work as written, and I can dress up their actions with whatever techno-babble is necessary.

Sounds good.