5150 Fighter Pilot > "Damage points", "taking damage" ?

[archivistdragontigre]

Hello

Back to playing Fighter Pilot, tabletop.social/@archiviste_Dragontigre/109557560129161728 because why not?

I have some issues with "Damage Points" as they are mentionned a few times, but not defined. This gives me trouble with Star Power and Heading Home

Star Power (p. 4)

Whenever a Star takes damage or loses a point of Rep, it rolls its current Star Power d6. Read each d6 as rolled.
• Any result of 1, 2, or 3 reduces the damage by one point.

(...)

Example – Capt. Pink (Rep 5) has his Rep reduced by 2 points from gunfire on the Fire Table. I roll 1d6 per point of the Star’s Rep. It’s 5d6 in this case, because the 2 points of damage haven’t been allocated yet.
(...)
Each 2 reduces the Rep loss by 1 point, so Billy goes back up to 5.

1. Rep is only reduced (if I haven't missed any rule) by 1 point, as a result on the Continue On table (p. 17) (after the Fire step)
(I'm not sure it is even possible to be shot by 2 different fighters as the same time and thus having to roll twice on the Continue On table)
2. "Damage" is always allocated, as it happens on the Fire table (p. 16)

Q: are Star Power d6 meant to be used to reduced any "Damage" (Rep, Hull, Firepower & Thrust) or only Rep?

If "only Rep" Star Power would only be used when instructed to return to Maneuver table, after a Pass 2d6 on the Continue On table?

"Damage Points" and Heading Home (p. 17)

If the Fighter has 2 or more Damage Points remaining

Q: what are those Damage Points? It would make sense that they are Hull Points, but one could interpret that as all remaining stuff not yet destroyed (points for Thrust, Firepower, and Hull). Another could even think they may be remaining Rep points, but since the effects are to the Fighter, not the Pilot it makes less sense.

(note: The Continue On table uses "Hull damage" and "Hull Points")

[Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy]

Hello



Back to playing Fighter Pilot, tabletop.social/@archiviste_Dragontigre/109557560129161728 because why not?

I have some issues with "Damage Points" as they are mentionned a few times, but not defined. This gives me trouble with Star Power and Heading Home

Here goes.

Star Power (p. 4)


Q: are Star Power d6 meant to be used to reduced any "Damage" (Rep, Hull, Firepower & Thrust) or only Rep? Any damage to Pilot or Craft. This represents the Pilot making a special move to reduce or eliminate damage.




If the Fighter has 2 or more Damage Points remaining


Q: what are those Damage Points? It would make sense that they are Hull Points, but one could interpret that as all remaining stuff not yet destroyed (points for Thrust, Firepower, and Hull). Another could even think they may be remaining Rep points, but since the effects are to the Fighter, not the Pilot it makes less sense. Fighter only – Hull, Thrust, Firepower. And as per pages 6 and 8, reach zero Hull the Fighter is destroyed.

(note: The Continue On table uses "Hull damage" and "Hull Points") Correct. If you took more Hull damage to the Fighter than you have Hull points left – example being took 2 Hull damage and have 1 Hull point left – you suffer the -1d6 penalty.

Hope this helps.

[archivistdragontigre]

Thank you. That helps indeed.

Especially as it makes Pilot and Fighter both more durable than how I played in my training missions.