In our game I allow aiming to bypass armor/soak. Especially on a landed ship, there are all sorts of exposed bits and pieces that would normally be covered, and a personal weapon against a large, stationary target should have no trouble finding a weak spot. Hell, finding the weak spot in an otherwise unhurtable target is about as Star Wars as it gets.

Potentially some risk with more hardcore number-crunchy players, but we have a relatively light cinematic game and this works out well.

... Ok, there isn't 3 without 4 XD After for copies, I saw that there are a lot of posts with almost the same content.

The shield idea concept its fine for most cases shields aren't 100% effective but, I would like to know what interpretations you make about some scenes like Auto-Blasters vs Droideka's Shiels (their own), Federation Station Bitten-Donut Ship (XD) that Naboo Fighters with lasers and Torpedoes think that its almost impenetrable, Gungan Shields vs B1 droids and Artillery Vehicles. Maybe a few cases like lasers againts big ships but, with those ones will be enough.

I mean, yep, I don't like videogame concept that you can sustain a lot of shots and recharge shields with F5, and also I understand that shield fluctuate and aren't always on but, in those cases where SURE shield can fight those kind of fire, how to do you deal with them?

Just 2 or 3 Setbacks seems not enough to recreate those scenes.

Another consideration its that I like oppinions about consider three different scales instead two.

Personal, Vehicle x5 and Ship x10. With those damage and armor adjustments, maybe a few more things will work.

What do you think?

I would have been happy if Silhouette 2-4 vehicles used a x5 multiple and the x10 didn't show up until Silhouette 5+.

I like your idea Happy.

Another way to classify (a bit harder maybe) its consider, always in vehicle scale and will be a personal GM&Players appreciation, that "light" weapons and armors are x5 and "heavy" would be x10.

Maybe there is an easy way to do it without just focus on Silhouette.

Right, because then people will say "So a capital ship that has several of the same weapons as what are mounted on the tips of an X-Wing's wings can't do more damage, because it's the same weapon!!"

Even if they're the same weapons, maybe it just makes sense that the larger ships can put more "oomph" behind the shots and they do more damage...this is interesting and I think I'll give it a test run.

But then, you would also have to remember that a smaller ship shooting at a larger ship will be doing half damage, essetially.

But we don't know if the E-web really was a threat to the Falcon herself or just to anyone in the landing bay as Han took it out before it could be setup. So, you're speculating on the mechanics without any information from the canon as to what it could do.

I'm pretty sure that was the intention of the story writer and what most thought when watching the scene for the first time. That's not speculation. When you sat down and watched ESB for the first time, you thought that big tripod mounted laser the Falcon took out was being set up to take out a snowspeeder? Such a later retcon is just to make the later weak RPG version of the E-web still make sense against what we saw in the movie. It really should be vice versa. The novelization of ESB from the same year the movie released agrees:

Han knew that the Falcon's dented hull might resist the force of those hand weapons, but would be destroyed by the more powerful bazooka-shaped weapon that two of the Imperial troopers were hurriedly setting up.

Saying "I'm pretty sure" and immediately following with "That's not speculation", seems a bit backwards, eh? Were you there for the production meetings and story writing? No? Then, yes it absolutely IS speculation. It's opinion.

I always took the shots fired by personal weapons at ships in the Star Wars movies to be the same as Riggs firing his handgun long range at the departing helicopter in Lethal Weapon. More hoping for a lucky shot than anything else.

I always fired at the Covenant ships in Halo when they were flying overhead.

Saying "I'm pretty sure" and immediately following with "That's not speculation", seems a bit backwards, eh? Were you there for the production meetings and story writing? No? Then, yes it absolutely IS speculation. It's opinion.

Parse much? I think my point was clear enough. It was only you a couple months later that happened upon it and found issues and thus had to make a snarky reply for some reason.

Edit: So what does the self appointed arbiter think? Did you think that E-Web was being set up to fire at the Falcon or a snowspeeder we never see off camera the first time you saw that scene? The second time? The tenth?