Re: [BNW] Bomber, cool or stupid?

[Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>]

> >Well the situation we were talking about is a sniper (or someone) shooting
> >the bomber in the head and him going off. In this case it takes 1d6 rounds
> >(open-ended) for the bomber to go off.
> 
> Was it?  I was just talking about the Bomber (and his general 
> destructiveness/viability towards his comardes) in general.  30 points of 
> massive damage is a lot for anyone, even a fellow Player Character, to want 
> to be near.  Which is why the power package doesn't strike me as that 
> "viable" (at least, not without that Focussed Strike-type Trick).

Well the specific example was the group running away and the bomber
getting shot.
But you are right in that he cannot just "go-off" willie-nillie. Like I
said, he's more of a one-shot big-bang kinda guy. Either he doesn't use
his powers, or he charges ahead while everyone else hangs back and blows
the crap out of a bunch of enemies.

I have a question:
I was thinking that the bomber would be a good PP to take on a Goliath.
But even with shaped charge his odds of doing serious damage to a Goliath
is low (3d6+3) x5 -> 40 to 45 pts. of damage on average... so that's 35
pts. of damage after the Goliath's armor.
This gives 5 wounds... so it would take both arms to knockout a Goliath.
Does that seem reasonable, or do you think maybe the bomber (or just the
shpaed charge) should get some kind of AP?

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