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ncrcalamine · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 214

Came up yesterday
Shield cracker does 8 shield damage phasers do 8 damage in same volley. is there burn thru? 16 damage to shields but only 8 can harm target ship.

Thanks

Nicole

storeylf · Fleet Captain Joined: 24 Jul 2008 Posts: 1702

Been a while since I checked, but I think shields crackers and phasers count as 2 separate volleys do they not?, special shield cracker rules. So no burn through.

m1a1dat · Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 5:19 pm Post subject:

We checked during our game last night and Shield crackers are not a seperate volley. The shield crackers do not do internal damage, what we were wondering is do they add to a volley with any normal damage (even if it is just 1 point) to count for burn through.

It made me start thinking that maybe they should have a special firing strp, possibly during defensive fire; because in SFB they are fired just before the transporter step, way before any direct fire weapons, so they can down a shield and then send over the marines. That would also allow you to knock down a web and then fire through it.

storeylf · Fleet Captain Joined: 24 Jul 2008 Posts: 1702

Just checked. They are indeed a separate volley. Rule 4N1e says they are always resolved as separate volleys when used with other weapons.

m1a1dat · Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 7:38 pm Post subject:

ok thanks, i must have missed that. Will have to go look again now. They should have done that with all the weapons that can be seperate, like ESG and hellbores.