I mean, we have become really proficient with delivering damage locations building doom boxes to deal out up to 20 single points from an LBX and such. Doling out pulse laser damage wouldn't even make us blink. Though, yeah I get it folks want to scale back on classic as is.
I think we must have less patience in our games, maybe because we don’t get to play so often. Even a couple SRM-6’s makes us squirm these days, though we have joked about playing all SRM-carriers before.
And thank you for reading them.
If you (and anyone else) do give the 2d8 rules a try I'd be keen on hearing your experience and/or any feedback -- I playtested them here, but as always we play a certain way and so we may well not have encountered something that doesn't quite work. Hmmm, that gets me thinking that one quick way to add a bit of a bonus to ACs in the game without needing to change a lot (like different stability damage values/etc) is just to say "if you need to make a piloting roll due to damage and you were hit by an AC this round, +1 to the difficulty". For extra oomph, you could add "If you are hit with an AC, you must make a PSR at +0 regardless of the damage taken." Both of those though might need to be tailored so that AC/2s don't become overly powerful, as a failed PSR can really ruin your day.
Oh for certain 2d8 is likely to be seen by some as scandalous, sacrilegious, blasphemy, and other similar words.
Which is why I included the 3d6 option to not have to change die types. Besides not increasing the probability as much, I think 3d6 also overly reduces the impact of modifiers and so it is both less impactful in "solving" the "issue" of low to-hit chances while also perhaps making tactics less important to pursue. But it does keep the same die type.
Oh, interesting... is that a big box you shake and and then go across to determine either hit locations or clusters? Or is white to hit and black is hit location? So you can do it all at once for all weapons across your mech?We do something similar to this for speed.
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