AToW piolet/gunnery skill conversion to Alpha Strike: how do?

[BiggRigg42]

I know how to convert piolet and gunnery skills from A Time of War (i.e. AToW) to Total Warfare. However, sometimes my group is stressed for time, and we want to switch over to Alpha Strike. Is there a conversion formula some place to convert our AToW piolet and gunnery skills over to Alpha Strike's one skill?

[DarkJaguar]

The skill ratings are abstracted, but if I recall correctly the gist of it is..

Wet Behind the Ears = 7
Very Green = 6
Green = 5
Regular = 4
Veteran = 3
Elite = 2
Heroic = 1
Legendary = 0

I think the Gunnery/Pilot ratings have equivalents to these as well.

[Xochi]

They adjust the PV of the unit being piloted, but since you may of Role Played the pilot skill up, I would ignore this and just go by what rating they are, such as Veteran.

[Scotty]

Since Alpha Strike does not use PSRs in any phase of the game outside of aerospace units, the Alpha Strike skill level is equivalent to the Gunnery.

[OpacusVenatori]

From AToW yo classic battletech the convertion is 10-skill level, there you will get the gunnery and the piloting of the character.

Then from classic to ALPHA STRIKE you add your classic battletech gunnery and piloting and then divide by 2. (G+P)/2 = SKILL RATING.

That's all.

[Tai Dai Cultist]

Since Alpha Strike does not use PSRs in any phase of the game outside of aerospace units, the Alpha Strike skill level is equivalent to the Gunnery.

I'm with OpacusVenatori.  Not only are AS skill values derived from both piloting and gunnery at the TW scale (which can in turn be derived from ATOW scale)... you do have more than a few corner cases in AS where you make a Skill check for things that'd be considered Pilot-related in TW-scale.   Lots of terrain navigation examples (Skill check to avoid bogging down, etc) but yes just nothing knockdown related as that's not a concept in AS.

[BiggRigg42]

From AToW yo classic battletech the convertion is 10-skill level, there you will get the gunnery and the piloting of the character.

Then from classic to ALPHA STRIKE you add your classic battletech gunnery and piloting and then divide by 2. (G+P)/2 = SKILL RATING.

That's all.

THANK YOU

[RoundTop]

THANK YOU

Warning: Round down.  eg: G4/P5 = 4+5=9 /2 = 4.5.  This would be Skill 4.
G4/P4 = 8/2 = 4, skill 4
G3/P5 = 8/2 = 4, skill 4
G3/P4 = 7/2 = 3.5, skill 3
G4/P3 = 7/2 = 3.5, skill 3

Now you could make an argument that a G3/P5 should be skill 3, but meh. house rule it if you have to.

[kronovan]

I'm with OpacusVenatori.  Not only are AS skill values derived from both piloting and gunnery at the TW scale (which can in turn be derived from ATOW scale)... you do have more than a few corner cases in AS where you make a Skill check for things that'd be considered Pilot-related in TW-scale.   Lots of terrain navigation examples (Skill check to avoid bogging down, etc) but yes just nothing knockdown related as that's not a concept in AS.

I'm with both of you and in fact it's what I'm doing for my AToW Mech combat encounters that use the Alpha Strike rules. Just basing the AS unified skill on AToW's Gunney skill, allows players to really beef up Gunnery for their PC's and consequently exploit the system. Not to mention, as has already been stated,  there are some skill checks in AS that more resemble a piloting check.