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Originally Posted by Harald387
With tongue only slightly in cheek, a Medium Laser fires once every ten seconds (the turn duration in Battletech) out to a maximum range of 270 meters (9 hexes, at 30m/hex)...
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RoF could be explained away as each shot representing the effects of a volley of fire rather than individual shots (which is quite clearly the case with the Machine Guns), but yeah, the ranges...
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Which is to say that the ranges and rates of fire given in BT are pretty nonsense and one shouldn't use them as guidelines for conversion. >.>
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Though as I understand it some of the older fiction has used the table top ranges as the basis of events in-universe.