ok, I saw this coming for a while already, but why is there only a tiny downside to stacking stress?

There are a few lists out there where stress stacking means absolutely nothing to the ship... it can keep taking stress, sure it can't S-Loop, K-turn, perform red manuvers or actions, but most of the ships stacking stress dont really need to bother about those and most of the time once you have atleast 3 stresses, you aren't going to care about any of those manuvers.

Just a thought...

maybe as a way to try and limit the amount of stresses a ship can take, after 10 stress tokens the ship takes a damage a round until he minimizes the amount? Most of the ships that do the stress stacking wont really care too much about this as they have tons of shields and hull already.

or another one, add a title or modification to Eaden Vrill (who already has a native ability that if the ship has a stress he can roll one additional dice) or a generic mod/title card that allows more attack dice to be rolled against a stressed ship after it has more than 10 stress.

something like "when performing a primary weapon attack against a stressed ship, roll an additional dice for each stress token over 10 that ship has"

opinions?

Obviously those that love stress stacking will go against my points, but its still a interesting point.

What you want is to nerf manaroo - dengar.

Other then that, stress stacking is very limited and not powerfull.

And I would not say that Tycho have lots of Shield and Hull and he would be seriously nerfed by the proposed change.

opinions?

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What you want is to nerf manaroo - dengar.

Other then that, stress stacking is very limited and not powerfull.

And I would not say that Tycho have lots of Shield and Hull and he would be seriously nerfed by the proposed change.

Fair Enough, Tycho does not have plenty of hull or shields, but a max of 10 stress does force him to start having to try get rid of some of them.

Nah.

If something is broken by stacking huge amounts of stress and ignoring the penalties for it, then that thing needs fixing by fixing it, not by writing a counter to it in the rules.

Where was that super long thread that we've just had discussing someone's idea that Stress NEEDS to be punished even more just because a ship may happen to operate at a useful capacity even when loaded down? I'd link to it but I can't seem to find it.

If you're so worried about massive stress stacks isn't there a new upgrade coming out that you should just LOVE which really crucifies anyone with Stress.

Where was that super long thread that we've just had discussing someone's idea that Stress NEEDS to be punished even more just because a ship may happen to operate at a useful capacity even when loaded down? I'd link to it but I can't seem to find it.

If you're so worried about massive stress stacks isn't there a new upgrade coming out that you should just LOVE which really crucifies anyone with Stress.

I think it's on the main page under "Making stress matter".

Where was that super long thread that we've just had discussing someone's idea that Stress NEEDS to be punished even more just because a ship may happen to operate at a useful capacity even when loaded down? I'd link to it but I can't seem to find it.

If you're so worried about massive stress stacks isn't there a new upgrade coming out that you should just LOVE which really crucifies anyone with Stress.

I think it's on the main page under "Making stress matter".

Not IT.

That thread was started and hour and a half before this one was and I'll admit I haven't bothered looking at it or commenting on it yet. The thread I'm thinking about was a good bit older (a week old but LOTS of posts) and I know I commented on it multiple times.

Here it is https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/230172-limiting-stress-penalty/ although I guess it's last post four days ago but it had lasted 4 pages over almost as many days.

What you want is to nerf manaroo - dengar.

Other then that, stress stacking is very limited and not powerfull.

And I would not say that Tycho have lots of Shield and Hull and he would be seriously nerfed by the proposed change.

Fair Enough, Tycho does not have plenty of hull or shields, but a max of 10 stress does force him to start having to try get rid of some of them.

Except there is no reason to force him to do so. Tycho is far from too powerfull. He is good but still a 2 attacks ship.

There's some really good points in that thread.

I just brought the Idea up because stress should be a negative thing. and it was for a while (earlier waves) then Eadin came along, and he made some difference (all be it a very small one) in the early days of stress.

now his ability means very little because stress stacking only adds one extra dice to a 2 dice attack and alot of the stress stacking ships have a ton of health. so they get major advantages, with very little dissadvantages for stacking stress.

If you are at work and stressed... and someone brings more and more **** to you to handle... what happens eventually (in a general sense as there are some people that handle stress at work very well) eventually you break down or, get ill, or throw your toys out the cot and rage at everyone.

Ow, come on! It has nothing to do with work or so...

There is Manaroo, which makes one ship (or a list) to do not care about stress. There is Mindlink, that decrease the problem of stress. There is Hera at Rebels that allows them to use red turns while stressed and Tycho who may stack stress without penalties... And I think that's all. There is not so many opportunities to stack stress and in the current shape it seems that it creates a nice variety of playable archetypes.

And there are options to use the stress to your advantage (i.e. Latts Razzi crew or mentioned BMST).