Recent content by Toshiro

Shosho Kage Yaichiro, YSS Battle Of Ayenee Capital City, NF-X5-16 Life has been rich with opportunity to the point where I have the 'problem' of not knowing what to ask of you. The best I can think of is to request something on behalf of those who may be unable to ask such a thing for...

"Acknowledged, Taisho." Yaichiro said, donning professionalism on-ship but returning the smile with a less melancholic one than he'd been given. He fully expected a work/home devide when they were on the same assignment, after all. There was no need for Katsuko to be concerned about splitting...

To: Shimizu-Motoyoshi-Ketsurui Akina From: Kage Yaichiro Subject: Type-30 Yacht Renovation and Refit The design has a similar structure and scale to a Plumeria, so I could certainly discuss it with you. What sort of changes were you considering, and did you want to talk over SYNC or in person?

To: Star Army Logistics From: Kage Yaichiro-Taisa I would like to request at least one Irim-class vessel be transferred to the Fifth Expeditionary Fleet for refit prototyping and testing. I would also request a pause on any destruction of remaining examples of the class within the bounds of...

YSS Battle Of Ayenee Capital City Shuttle Bay One Yaichiro, who had accompanied Katsuko on the shuttle along with her other staff, wordlessly flanked on her rear right and stayed with the group. His eyes regarded everything with a clear interest and an intent to remember, especially since he...

"I don't feel like having alcohol at the moment, but I'll start with some fresh apple cider if you have it. I'm not a big drinker aside from the occasional plum wine and I feel like I should reserve that for later," Yaichiro conveyed after returning the hug from Akina. He was rarely a drinker...

Yaichiro entered the room not long after this, choosing to arrive relatively early compared to other functions. Immediately noteworthy was that he wore a sky blue suit and a darker blue tie on top of a white dress shirt. Dark blue dress shoes were also worn. While not his normal attire, it...

I really need to stop reading these things when I'm tired and out of practice. My numbers for the Weapon groups were way off. My math now says "64 + TEWGs" rather than your 80, but still. Ugh. Still not a fan of "slap more tiers on". The very concept feels fundamentally lazy from a scaling...

I'm not a fan of the whole DR system to start with, but my logic is "don't codify it halfway because someone, somewhere, will use it to the absolute limit rather than as a guide". As for too few weapons? Imagine this. Dyson Ring of Tier 18...only allowed to have 16 Tier 15 weapons under DRv3...

Well, I'm still not a fan of just pumping the DRv3 system up to 18, because the technical issues cited are still in place. Too few weapons, too much hull, impractical barrier implementation. No one's mentioned anything about the technical problems, only why they think 'what we have is fine'.

I suppose a key disagreement would be if concentrated fire sufficient to make a hole in a Tier 18 vessel could be considered 'light damage' then? Especially if it were equivalent to destroying a Tier 15 craft by surface area and left the inside of the superstructure vulnerable? Maybe it's that...

DRv3 calculates hull damage as a function of 'the whole thing'. When the main method of attacking an enemy structure like this is concentrated fire, handwaving and saying the GM should handle that scenario doesn't excuse making a rule that doesn't quite work well in the first place. However...

That's the issue. Concentrated fire on the bridge or doing a trench run will accomplish virtually nothing under the DRv3 rules as presented. The damage to smaller sections is essentially 'absorbed' by the whole structure's stats by merit of being tens/hundreds/thousands of kilometers long.

A Tier 15 weapon against a Tier 18 target would cause 7% barrier face damage and "light" hull damage according to the DRv3 wiki article. A Tier 15 weapon would have to fire fifteen times at the same spot to even get at the hull, assuming the target's barrier power was not supplemented from any...

To: Katsuko From: Yaichiro I feel foolish for keeping you waiting so long, Katsuko. Yes, I will marry you and accept the name of your clan. Many of the things keeping me from doing so have been resolved (I have closure in terms of my feelings for Hanako and Taro's talk with me was...