Actually, I don't have the book in front of me, but what it SHOULD say is that troops can be sacrificed to avoid a crew casualty hit, and NOT a special equipment hit.

This is correct. Troops are not a viable 'Q' hit.

on p 33 of the Brigade book it says

"If a player chooses to lose troops as a result of a special equipment hit"

jim

Sounds like if it isn't in the errata already, it should be.

That would be correct.

I didn't say there wasn't a potential for abuse...

If you want padding for Q hits, use Transporters, which are insanely cheap.  They also combo nicely with Security Troops, which soak your Crew hits for you.

Or did we fix that at some point and I missed it? 

Rich

Speaking of Transporters... can anyone tell me what the rules for them were?  I looked in X and the Compendium, but they aren't in there.  I'd like to use them for my Star Trek games. 

I have altered the spreadsheet so I can include them as a special equipment item that can be destroyed, but they have no point cost or value, as I don't know what they'd be worth.  I figure for now, until I get actual stats, every ship would have one and only one, to represent the whole transporter system for the ship, so it should equal out point wise. 

Rulewise, I'm thinking it as having a 5 hex range (or, I vaguely recall someone mentioning it having a 10 hex range) and they can transport marines directly onto a ship, instead of relying on pods.  Of course facing shields on both ships must be down or dropped for the turn. 

Of course these would be house rules for the Star Trek universe, as obviously the system has been dropped from the official rules.  But if anyone can get me what the rules were so I can expound on my ideas, that would be great.  Thanks!

Fred

Hey, thanks!  Do they have a recommended SU, offensive and defensive value?

Fred

Thanks for the information.  But, does a Q hit damage only one teleporter, or 1D6 teleporters?  Because if it's one for one, then they're too cheap as Q hits.  Usually its my hyperdrive that gets damaged and repaired often  but now it never gets damaged at all (until the ship blows up, anyway).  1D6 seems excessive for teleporter losses, perhaps 1D3 are lost per Q hit?

But Teleporters are gone now, aren't they?  In part *because* of that problem.

If you're trying to use them to model Star Trek or something, I'd advise having a Q hit knock out *all* your Teleporters.  The Enterprise has what, a dozen or more of the fool things, but when one breaks down, they never just go use another one.  Of course that has more to do with plot requirements and set budgets than anything, but still...

Rich

That's news to me. 

If they lose 1d6 of them per hit, would that make it better?

You hear this, Beowulf?  No more cheesy 10 teleporters on each of your capital ships.