Writing about Bombers: (this sucks)
Note that all situations involve a wave of 6 bombers (or a mix of bombers and fighters)
So currently we have this as our best possible outcome of damage against a 5+ armoured vessel: (accounting for turret suppression)
Turrets | Damage |
1 | 4.58 |
2 | 3.11 |
3 | 2 |
4 | 1.5 |
5 | 1.166 |
6 | 1 |
Knowing this let's look at possible revisions:
I proposed D3 attack runs and no more turret suppression/- from turrets, this looks like:
Turrets | Damage |
1 | 3.667 |
2 | 3.33 |
3 | 3 |
4 | 2.667 |
5 | 2.33 |
6 | 2 |
So a sizeable gain 3+ turrets. Well... not that sizeable, but we'll see.
Let's look at if turrets hit on 3+ and we used this same system:
Turrets | Damage |
1 | 3.555 |
2 | 3.11 |
3 | 2.66 |
4 | 2.22 |
5 | 1.77 |
6 | 1.33 |
I think that's the money shot. It fits all the goals that I wanted, making bombers worse against 1 turret items, better against 4,5&6 and about the same to 2,3 Any thoughts?
Lets see how this would hurt torps:
Each turret would kill 1/6 more torp... not such a big deal... but torps already got a little neutered. Hrmmmmm......
How about this; Turrets re-roll hits against waves of bombers:
Turrets | Damage |
1 | 3.5 |
2 | 3 |
3 | 2.5 |
4 | 2 |
5 | 1.5 |
6 | 1 |
Interestingly almost identical to current rules..... however this is kinda a weird complication... less than current however.... so no big deal. You could even add in a 'Turret suppression rule' that would prevent the re-rolls. Only one fighter would be necessary to do this.
Of course this does make Bombers slightly more powerful, but I like RCs idea that fighters will remove D3 bombers in a wave unless the wave is escorted by Fighters, in which case it will simply remove the fighter.
Assault boats would not receive the 'turret re-rolls against' unless the ship had the 'fast-tracking turrets' special rule. Which would give ABs their substantial boost. Fluff behind this could say that bombers have to fly around the ship finding the best location to drop their payload. ABs land on the first spot that they see and cut into the hull.
Of course ABs would have to be escorted by fighters to not get murdered by enemy fighters just the same.
Thoughts?