Topic: Pricing of 'Must Reroll Penetration' and some questions...
1.) Must Reroll Penetration describes a weapon which is 'highly susceptible to shield interference', and notes that 'whenever one of the penetration dice gets through the targets shields' it must be rerolled.
2.) Ignores Shields creates a situation where the shot 'automatically gets through the targets shields'
3.) PDS notes that 'Shield (meaning, I assume, penetration) rolls automatically fail on an unmodified roll of 1, 3, or 5'. Thus, the PDS both is, and is not, a shield.
Thoughts:
We accept that PDS applys to a weapon that 'Ignores Shields'. Ergo, whatever PDS is, it is not shields, such that an Ignores Sheilds weapon does not ignore it. (Is this correct? It seemed clear to me at the time).
I initially thought that a weapon which 'Must Reroll Penetration' would have to reroll against PDS. However, 'Must Reroll Penetration' states that shots which get through the targets shields must be rerolled. Assuming that PDS is not shields for the purposes of Ignores Sheilds, this suggests that PDS is not shields for the purposes of Must Reroll Penetration, such that a weapon, which is 'must reroll penetration', would not have to reroll penetrations agaisnt a ship having only PDS, and would face only the screens on its second roll, if the target ships had both screens AND PDS.
On the other hand, my first interpretation is simpler.. which has its own virtues.
I guess it comes down to how we assigned the cost of 'Must Reroll Penetration'. If it contemplated PDS, it must reroll against PDS. If it did not contemplate PDS (as Ignores-Shields did not, I belive, contemplate PDS in its costing), I guess it shouldnt have to face PDS on the reroll.
Thoughts?
