It's a Trap! Sensor Jamming Question

[The Bissler]

Moving on to a fresh question: Interdictors and Gravity Wells

Am I right in my understanding that if an Interdictor places a gravity well one turn, it can shut it down, wait 6 rounds and then fire again?

Also, that the other three projectors are unaffected by the recharging for the first gravity well?

Finally, that, if my understanding is correct, the Interdictor could fire a new well for four turns, each lasting one turn (and minimising the energy drain to 1 per turn), with only two turns before the first could be fired again? In practice, I'd probably leave the last well in place until the first projector was ready to fire again.

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[garhkal]

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[KageRyu]

I would suggest handling the Jamming aspect in 2 ways (not either or, but two approaches are available to each/any ship). As Star Wars has never been super crunchy on mechanics and such and Sensors on a ship generally represent passive and active scanning and counter measures both then the ships Sensor score becomes important when jamming and will help determine how effective it is. Scale should be a factor, as the sheer power of a capital ships sensors should overwhelm a star fighter.

Passive Jamming - This method the ship is only taking steps to jam, block, redirect, or misrepresent any active scanning on itself. It's Die Rolls and jamming difficulties only effect attempts to scan it for information. Obviously if someone has a visual of the vessel they may be able to identify type, unless they overcome it's jamming no other information will be available about it (shields up or down, weapons powered or not, etc...

Active Jamming - The Vessel targets another vessels to interfere with all of it's outbound sensory attempts. In this case, the Sensor Score/ Jamming Difficulties affect all sensor uses and scans by the targeted vessel and will affect it's ability to scan or read any sensor information. Multiple Targets may be chosen as per MAP, but when comparing Capital Ships to Starfighters or smaller I recommend treating a squadron as a single target. A successful jam of this type would prevent a capital ship from detecting or scanning any and all targets - though they would know they are being jammed - but without visual may not know by who and fire control should be useless.

I have, in my various games, used a lot of house rules for Electronic Warfare in my Non-SW games with fun results. Things like providing fake info to target sensors, handling Electronic Warfare in a similar fashion to weapon combat, adding jamming rolls to weapon to hit difficulties, etc... While I could try to dig up some of these rules to make available, it is not really in the spirit of the SW setting and unless you have a group that likes these aspects of conflict will bog down and possibly derail a game.
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[The Bissler]

Cheers KageRyu! It will be Active Jamming I'll be using and agree that treating a squadron of fighters as a single target is a good way to go. My group like things to be as simple as possible so I definitely don't want to put you to trouble about this!

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