From:           	"Jeffrey C. Kozell" <jeffkozell@pcola.gulf.net>
To:             	<babylon5-wars@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject:        	[B5W] Re: B5W] Asteroid Scenerio
Date sent:      	Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:01:52 -0500
Send reply to:  	babylon5-wars@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU

>A Quick Run Through the Asteroid Field:  A Scenario for B5 Wars
>For 2-4 people
>
>"Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field are
>3720 to 1!!!"
>"Never tell me the odds."
> -C3PO & Han Solo:  The Empire Strikes Back-
>
>Asteroid Field:  This is a highly volatile Asteroid Field such as found in
>"The Empire Stikes Back" (okay not B5 but makes some great inspiration),
>and thus is different from the Asteroid Field presented in the Core Rules.
>These Asteroids MOVE!  They move before all other ships in the movement
>phase.  To determine how an Asteroid moves roll a d6 for direction and a
>d3 for the number of hexes it moves. This attempts to mimic the chaos of
>the hundreds of Asteroids flying around, colliding and moving in a new
>direction.  (To save time it works best to have every player put a finger
>on 2 to 3 Asteroids and have them move as a group.  However these
>Asteroids should be rather spread out.


I've used a somewhat similar method with Silent Death for over 5 years.
However, instead of rolling a d3 for distance (which is too linear for
chaos) I roll 3d6, which includes the direction. Basically, you need 3d6 but
one of them needs to be a different color. Say you have one red d6 and two
white d6. You roll all three at once. The red die is the direction. The two
white die are the distance. The asteroid always moves one hex in the
direction shown and moves an additional hex for each white die that matches
the direction. For example: (r = red die, w = white die)
r1  w2  w3  = move 1 hex in direction 1
r3  w4  w3  = move 2 hexes in direction 3
r5  w5  w5  = move 3 hexes in direction 5

Now for the kicker! ;) For this to be really fun we need to add a little
suspense to the action: Asteroids move AFTER ships! That's right folks, you
move, they move, then you fire. Asteroids have a mind of their own. While
some really like blocking your shots, others tend to congregate in nice
clumps of cover only to disperse when you need them the most. You might even
think that gravity had something to do with it. :)

>Wraith
>rhahn@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu
>

Cheers,

Jeffrey C. Kozell
jeffkozell@pcola.gulf.net
http://welcome.to/thehangar