I had a lot of questions about 3 months ago, and these are the answers I got.
If there are other that got responce of some kind let us know and post them here to.
Starship Questions + Answers:
1) Beam weapons lose their effectiveness over a distance. So I presume that the same rule applies for the following Alien Beam weapons, but how much, or how??
-Cutting Beam: I think its Point Blank range because the target has to be hold in a Tractor Beam. Correct?
Close. Tractor beams have a maximum range of Short, therefore a cutting beam's effective range is Short or Point Blank. The effect is the same regardless.
-Energy Drain (Breen and Borg): I think -2 penalty on the reliability TN 15 test per range category the system's must make, to a maximum range of Medium. Correct?
The TN to hit the defending ship is its shield Protection Rating + 5 with the Energy Drain weapon. An Energy Drain weapon's effects are not diminished by range; then TN 15 reliability test is made from a point blank range attack or a medium range one. I would place a maximum range of Medium on this weapon, however. (The Energy Drain is mostly a plot device weapon anyway, and was quickly countered by Starfleet Engineers in DS9.)
2) Borg Energy Drain question: Which of the following effect is the right one? And what to do when the Borg scores a High success on their attack test (superior, extra ordinary success)?
-The Shield system needs to make a reliability TN 15 test and if they fail be rendered inoperable, and if they make the test then the shield looses 3 points of strength.
-The Shield system needs to make a reliability TN 15 test and if they fail the shield looses 3 points of strength.
There are no special effects for a high success result with an Energy Drain weapon. It hits or it doesn't. In the case of a Borg Energy Drain weapon, 3 points of shield strength are lost if the weapon hits, regardless of the degree of success.
Shields (and all other systems) must make a TN 15 reliability test or be rendered inoperable only on Breen or other faction's energy drain weapons. Borg Energy Drain weapons are special and apply to *shields only*. There is no TN 15 reliability test when attacked by a Borg Energy Drain weapon. Once the Borg suck your shields dry (after a few rounds) then the fun starts as drones start beaming in or your hull gets cut into bite-sized pieces. =)
-When the ship is successfully attacked, the shield looses 3 points of strength.
This is correct.
Ardet Nec Consumitur' / Burns but doesn't decay / Brandt maar vergaat niet.