Post by weedsrock2 on Jul 25, 2024 20:43:38 GMT
Okay, so basically it is a "destroy me first" SA. That means it is granting additional hull points to the ships around it.
It is Guard the Convoy on steroids.
GUARD THE CONVOY - While this unit is in the same sector as a friendly Auxiliary unit, enemy units can't attack that Auxiliary unit until this unit has been attacked at least once in the same phase.
Guard the Convoy only provides protection for one attack. Decoy is providing nearly infinite protection unless your opponent goes directly for this unit and gets rid of it first which will usually take multiple attacks to accomplish.
Plus Decoy provides protection to all the ships in all the adjacent sectors as well. It is providing an extended force field.
I think this whole concept is way too powerful. So my compromise proposal is to make it a once per game. I don't like "once per games" very much because they are often just a shim, and I don't like SA's that require me to remember them still being in play later. But sometimes they are the only way to keep a mechanic from being too powerful.
Decoy(revised) - Once per game, if a friendly local or adjacent Ship other than this unit would be damaged or destroyed in the Air Attack phase, roll a die. On a 4 or higher that attack misses instead.
So I have also modified it to improve the odds (4 or higher), and you get to choose when to use it (not first time). Now it is more in line with other "survival" type SAs but with a larger blanket.
How about that?
It is Guard the Convoy on steroids.
GUARD THE CONVOY - While this unit is in the same sector as a friendly Auxiliary unit, enemy units can't attack that Auxiliary unit until this unit has been attacked at least once in the same phase.
Guard the Convoy only provides protection for one attack. Decoy is providing nearly infinite protection unless your opponent goes directly for this unit and gets rid of it first which will usually take multiple attacks to accomplish.
Plus Decoy provides protection to all the ships in all the adjacent sectors as well. It is providing an extended force field.
I think this whole concept is way too powerful. So my compromise proposal is to make it a once per game. I don't like "once per games" very much because they are often just a shim, and I don't like SA's that require me to remember them still being in play later. But sometimes they are the only way to keep a mechanic from being too powerful.
Decoy(revised) - Once per game, if a friendly local or adjacent Ship other than this unit would be damaged or destroyed in the Air Attack phase, roll a die. On a 4 or higher that attack misses instead.
So I have also modified it to improve the odds (4 or higher), and you get to choose when to use it (not first time). Now it is more in line with other "survival" type SAs but with a larger blanket.
How about that?
