Revised Scale

DougRed4 · Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2019 4:25 pm Post subject: Revised Scale

Although I never made it part of our official house rules, I think I was playing around with a version of the Scale rules that I think I found here. I'm wondering now how much I think this revision is accurate, especially in light of how we saw starfighters blowing the crap out of AT-ATs in Rogue One?

First off, for comparison, here's the 2R&E scale:

Character -
Speeder 2D
Walker 4D
Starfighter 6D
Space Transport 9D
Capital 12D
Death Star 24D

And the 'house rules' one I think I've used before, testing it out:

Character -
Cycle 2D
Speeder 4D
Starfighter 6D
Walker 8D
Starship 10D
Capital Ship 14D
Dreadnaught 18D
Death Star 24D
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CRMcNeill · Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2019 4:45 pm Post subject:

Scale isn't supposed to place larger vehicles completely out of harm's way, it just makes it harder. The AT-ACTs from Rogue One likely weren't as heavily armed and armored as the AT-ATs from ESB, and we never got to see how AT-ATs would fare against X-Wings anyway. The closest we have in the EU is in X-Wing: Isard's Revenge, where the lead flight of Rogue Squadron (Wedge, Tycho, Hobbie and Janson) went head-to-head against four AT-ATs. However, there were extenuating circumstances that made this not a fair representation; Rogue Squadron is obviously in hand-picked elite territory while the AT-AT crews were judged to be average at best, and Rogue Squadron deliberately handicapped themselves by not using their proton torpedoes (on the off chance there would be additional anti-capital ship work to do in orbit). It did, however, take multiple coordinated shots for a pair of X-Wings to just disable a single AT-AT.
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DougRed4 · Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 5:22 am Post subject:

So what are your thoughts, CRMc? Do you like the RAW scales? I was thinking I might have gotten this revised scale concept from you years ago.
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Raven Redstar · Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 9:01 am Post subject:

It looks pretty close to the one I pilfered from CRMcNeill quite some time ago.
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CRMcNeill · Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 9:31 am Post subject:

DougRed4 · Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 2:55 pm Post subject:

Thank you, sir! Cool

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