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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ilja" data-source="post: 6446655" data-attributes="member: 84300">1. You miss. Missing should be a high risk, especially if unskilled or shooting in disadvantageous situations (shooting at long range vs a moving light 'mech for example). Though most 'mechs will have two or three different attacks, so there's a decent chance of hitting with _something_, at least.2. I don't get the question really? There'll be a 2/6 to roll for body or legs respectively, and 1/6 for each arm. This replaces the standard method of rolling 2d6 and consulting a table. There's no universally "better" or "worse" place to hit, it depends a lot on circumstance, though you generally want to hit as much as possible in a single location and avoid spreading the damage out if possible. Higher skill will make it more likely that the pilot can control where the damage ends up; they can take advantage of more openings.The only numbers involved at all would be in the number of dice used, as well as a single d6 for determining which critical hit effect happens if you're critically hit. Each hit location has six "slots", so for example, the "left side" location of an Atlas AS7-D would contain something like 1. Arm Actuator; 2. Heatsink; 3 Heatsink; 4 LRM-20; 5 Medium Laser; 6 LRM ammunition. It has 20 points of armor and 15 points of internal structure.So for an example, let's say I'm piloting a heavy 'mech known as the Grasshopper GHR-5H, and have managed to jump in right behind the assault 'mech known as the Atlas AS7-D (mentioned above). The Grasshoppers main weapons are a Large Laser and a set of four Medium Lasers. I'm already running pretty hot from previous firing and jumping, so I'll opt just to use the Medium Lasers which together do 8 damage.Let's say my skill is 4, and I'm firing at close range so +1, and at the back of the enemy 'mech so +1, but I've jumped this round so -1. So I roll 5 colored d6's and one regular d6. Let's say hypothetically two of them come up red, so I hit the left side. The left side is already pretty stripped of armor, so my hit goes through the last remaining armor and tear into the internal structure. Since it hurts the internal structure, it scores a critical hit, and I look at my rolled regular d6, which shows 4. Then I look at the atlas sheet and see that 4 means I've critically hit the LRM-20, which is great. The long-range missiles are destroyed, and the atlas has lost a lot of punch.EDIT: On your edit, that may be different from area to area; I've only met two people ever who insisted on using their own dice, and both of those were in WoD. And of course magic players love their personal life counters. But in other games I've rather met the opposite, people prefer if the game arranger/gm has dice for everybody xD.</blockquote>

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