Chapter 4B: Asteroid Battle

I think this is allowed, but it's not the purpose of it. There are many, many things a department can do to help. Repeating something after a while seems ok. Choosing the same two descriptions over and over again seems like a lazy approach.

That should be another 1 CP.

I agree, but if @daryen would like to take control also not a problem.

I am amenable to whatever works better. Having one person manage the guns is fine by me.

Doing Comms is sufficient for my purposes.

Sure, that's fine. I would expect it to play that way in real-time as the default.

To me, here on GP, it would also make sense for a player to control the gunnery department (declaring the actions) and then have the GM do all the rolls for the actual guns (because it reduces posts and saves time).

Yes, the Captain would do that every round.

So if it's a skill check outside of combat, it's 2d6, but if it's a skill check in combat, it's 1d20?
Or is it just skill checks that involve attacks in combat that are 1d20, and other skill checks in combat are still 2d6?

I don't have a sense of how badly damaged the Sentinel is at this point, and I don't know the condition of the ships we're attacking, either (well, the fighters are undamaged, but I don't know about the patrol boat). So I don't know whether the Captain would Support the Gunnery or Engineering/Repair departments for this third turn. If the Captain Supports the Engineering department to work on repairs, that reduces the cost of repairs by 2 CP (I don't know the cost of repairs), but would that also mean (as I suspect) that the Engineering department would be actively making a repair check rather than Doing Their Duty, so our current CP total would be 2, rather than 3?

I've looked over the space battle actions you've put on Douklan's sheet (thank you); without knowing the condition of the ships, I don't know whether I should be spending points on Evasion or concentrating on generating CP for the gunnery department. We were hit in turn 2 and are down to 19 ship HP; did we deal any damage to the patrol boat on turn two? What is its condition?

Just those that involve attacks (Shoot, Stab, Punch, etc).
The Engineering did their duty this round, see PhoenixScientist post above, so that is not an option anymore, their round is finished. The patrol boat is pretty hurt so focusing on Gunnery is an option. The Bridge's Evasion is still a possibility as that's under your control as well.
Great! I will add that in the other PCs sheets too.
Fighter 1 - 8 HP left (of 8)
Fighter 2 - 7 HP (of 8)
Patrol Boat - 8 HP (of 25)

I will add an HP table next round as well. :)

I've been generating CP till now, but I plan on trying Damage Control to get back lost HP in round 4.

Please kill the Patrol Boat first. Honestly, if at least two of the three Fusion Beam shots hit, then it should reduce the Patrol Boat's HP to 0.

As an aside, what does happen when the ship's HP drop to 0?

Nothing good

Just so that I’m clear on the order, all of our departments already went on round 4? Waiting for the enemy ships now? In the next round I could go ahead and try to finish the patrol boat?

I have not seen round 4 declared. I was just communicating intent early.

Nops. We are still at round 3.

Why do we have CP listed by department if they're shared?

I think that is not by department, is the remaining cp after that action. Ex: after the comms department did their duty we received 1cp going from 1 to 2

Yup. Sorry if it was not clear. The remaining CP is what really matters for the next actions, so I'm listing it in each row.

@htech About the gunnery, all guns will fire (if we manage to get 3 CP) and I can roll for the two plasma guns

In that case, please roll damage for each gun as well with your posts, so if you hit I can already deduce the damage and if you miss I can simply ignore that specific damage roll. =)

I will update your post above to show how =)

My question more defined, because I dont understand yet. If it's CP generatied Engineering should be 3. But we have shared CP, so having it separated doesn't make sense? Because any department can use the CP any other department generates so Engineering doesn't have 2 and The Sentinel 1, The Sentinel has 3.
If it was CP generated this turn it would be only 1 for everyone who Did Your Duty

think of it like a timeline, we started with zero CP, engineering did their duty, we went from 0 to 1, comms did their duty also going from 1 to 2 and so on. And of course we are sharing it, for example gunnery is trying to use 3 CP, since we only had 2 in total we are currently at -1 unlesss some other department generates more.

Oh. Every round CP resets (starts at zero).

So, what the table is showing is that at the beginning of round 3, Engineering was the first to act, and generated 1 CP. We have 1 CP available after that.

Then, Comms did, and generated another CP, for a total of 2 available after that.




Bridge and Captain still have to act in this round, but Gunnery chose "Fire All Guns". Normally, they would have to wait, because we don't have 3 CP available yet. But I'm letting they go and will consider all rolls. That means the CP is at -1 after Gunnery acted. If the Bridge/Captain don't fix that, Gunnery action will be canceled.