Void shield? What?

[Tarkand 1]

I'm confused as to the working of Void Shield.

I roll to hit, get a 20, I have 50BS... 3 degree of success, since the weapon I'm using has a STR of 3, I just scored 3 hits (all for an example here), I remove '1' because of the void shield, meaning I actually hit twice. I then roll damage, tally it up, compare it to Armor, and remove any damage over the Armor to the Hull Point.

Good? Good.

The confusion comes from the line that says that Void shield go down after taking damage equal to their 'strenght'... where is the 'strenght' of a shield listed?

 

 

[player546410 1,130]

This refers to the 'number' of void shields.  Cruisers have 2 Void Shields (multipule Void Shield Array) everything else in the main book as one (Single Void Shield.)

[Tarkand 1]

Aaaaaah... well, that makes it awfully simple .

So you shoot the ship with your batteries, hoping to knock down the shield and maybe do some damage and than you wham them down with the Lance. Got it.

Thanks.

 

[FoxPhoenix135 0]

Yes, that was a common tactic in Battlefleet Gothic, which was the original space naval combat game for the 40k universe. Or you could bypass shields altogether with torpedoes. Give me torpedoes, FFG!!! /rant.

[Xalendar 18]

 Torpedo will probably come with "Into the Storm" as official material already propose ships with torpedo launcher (The Hand of Redemption of the GM kit for example).

[player546410 1,130]

IIRC, they've already said Torpedeos arn't in there.  They're waiting for a dedicated Ship book which has already been unofficialy promiced.

[Dalnor Surloc 1]

FoxPhoenix135 said:

Yes, that was a common tactic in Battlefleet Gothic, which was the original space naval combat game for the 40k universe. Or you could bypass shields altogether with torpedoes. Give me torpedoes, FFG!!! /rant.

 

Actually BFG was the 2nd game.  The generally unlameted Space Fleet was 1st.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Fleet

 

On the other hand some of the SF models were pretty cool looking.  Some were extremely stupid....