Overview (For spectator eyes only!)
Red Team:
Everything working fine
Cannons
-Fore Starboard - Loaded
-Fore Port - Loaded
-Aft Starboard - Loaded
-Aft Port - Unloaded
forward speed at 5.
Ohhh... yes. You have a shot on their starboard side!
(Holy snap, 8 successes)
*BOOM* Your shot rockets across the airspace, smashing into their upper starboard side engine!
You steer to port, and can hear cannon fire from below deck.
Guess you must doing something right.
You check the engines.
They're doing much better then what Toastarrr just did to the other ship's engine.
You take a handkerchief out of your pocket and stick it over the hole you just had to make a flap that you can still lift to view out of.
It sounds like there's cannon fire down on the deck below.
Blue Team:
Engines
-upper starboard side - Heavily Damaged
-upper port side - fine
-lower fore starboard side - fine
-lower fore port side - fine
-lower aft starboard side - fine
-lower aft port side - fine
Cannons
-Fore Starboard - Unloaded - Overcharged!
-Fore Port - Unloaded
-Aft Starboard - Loaded - Modified?
-Aft Port - Loaded - Upgraded?
forward speed at 5.
You know that the Engineer was working on the aft port cannon earlier, so you load that one. You hear a loud bang, and feel the ship shake!
Ok, since I can't remember/find the exact rules for ship-to-ship combat, but can find the stats, I'm going to use it like this until piecewise tells me I'm doing it wrong.
Standard cannon stats- damage (5 for standard shells) range is "start at one and add +1 for each square"
I don't know what to make of that in the range thing, so how I'm going to do that is you need that many successes to hit (so at the range you're at, at only 2 squares apart, you'd need 3 successes to hit) and any excess successes will apply to additional damage.
Also, I don't have the exact number of health for engines, so I'm just going to wing it. (pun intended)
Also also, with the base damage of a cannon at 5, and the health of
reinforced metal walls that flabort built the ships out of, it may take a while to actually start putting holes in the walls. A couple of you actually have
personal weapons that are more effective than these shoddy cannons.