Hi All,

Can someone, in English this time, explain to me what the hell is meant by:

Massive 1: When making an attack targeting this starship, the critical rating of any weapons used counts as 1 higher.

Let's say you a driving a fairly good freighter, and you happen to have a Quad-Laser cannon turret equipped (excellent choice!), with a critical hit rating of 3 . In range lies an enemy Capital ship with Massive 1 . Since you are feeling foolhardy, you decide to shoot it!

You have 3 yellows, 2 greens, you get a Boost from Accurate 1, and you Aim twice for a total of 3 Boost dice. You roll against 1 purple and (let's say) 2 setback dice from the Deflector Shield the enemy ship has. You rolled extremely well, and get 3 Successes, 5 Advantages and a Triumph! (at least luck's on your side!)

You use 2 advantages to trigger one Linked for an extra hit, and want to use 3 Advantages to get a crit . At that point, the GM reminds you that you would actually need 4 Advantages , because the Massive rule adds its rating (of 1) to the required number of Advantages needed to trigger a crit. You then decide to trigger another Linked for 2 more Advantages instead, and you use that Triumph to get that crit you so desperately wanted, because Massive 1 has no effect on crits triggered by Triumphs.

End result: Three hits dealing 8 damage each, and a potential critical hit. If at least one of the hits manages to get through the enemy ship's Armor rating, your crit may be activated and rolled on the appropriate table.

Next round: the Capital ship retaliates... oops!

Ahhh...so instead of needing 3 Advantages you need 4 Advantages to do a critical hit to this ship...got it!

Why didn't they just say that?

Yea... But it makes sence in an odd way like all the other key word abilities.. Linked 2, accurate3 , ninja karate chop 5..ect..