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nicewitch
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 Posted: 22-Feb-2013 11:10 Post subject: My unofficial rules for the Kylie Maneuver. |
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I was watching the BattleTech animated TV series and Cadet Kylie used a Banshee's thrusters to overheat a Jade Falcon 'Mech. So I came up with these rules:
If a unit using thrust wants to use exhaust heat from its thrusters to add heat to a target, then follow the rules for a ramming attack except neither the attacker nor target takes damage but apply an additional +3 modifier to the piloting base to-hit number, and the target takes a number of heat points equal to the attacker's engine rating multiplied by the total number of thrust points spent during the heat phase of the turn that attack takes place.
So what's your opinion of these rules?
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Rudel Gurken
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| Posted: 22-Feb-2013 12:30 Post subject: My unofficial rules for the Kylie Maneuver. |
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Much too much heat!
What are you trying to accomplish with hundreds of heat points?
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| Posted: 22-Feb-2013 16:43 Post subject: My unofficial rules for the Kylie Maneuver. |
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even if you did use the above formula, it would only cause 15 pts of heat. According to TW rules on external sources of heat you can only ever receive up to 15 pts per turn from external sources (excluding planetary effects).
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chihawk
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| Posted: 22-Feb-2013 17:05 Post subject: Re: My unofficial rules for the Kylie Maneuver. |
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| nicewitch wrote: | | So what's your opinion of these rules? |
You probably should master the official rules before coming up with variants.
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nicewitch
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| Posted: 22-Feb-2013 21:23 Post subject: Re: my unofficial rules for the Kylie Maneuver. |
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| Hmm, I must have missed reading that rule. I don't think that BT Writers considered Kylie's maneuver when they wrote the rules for heat.
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chihawk
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| Posted: 22-Feb-2013 22:09 Post subject: Re: my unofficial rules for the Kylie Maneuver. |
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The novels have nothing to do with game play.
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jymset
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| Posted: 23-Feb-2013 06:10 Post subject: Re: my unofficial rules for the Kylie Maneuver. |
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| nicewitch wrote: | | Hmm, I must have missed reading that rule. I don't think that BT Writers considered Kylie's maneuver when they wrote the rules for heat. |
Of course not. But they did consider some new weaponry - first and foremost the Plasma Cannon - which could quickly jack up heat to impossible levels and clearly deliberately decided they wanted to curb that.
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