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03-15-2017, 04:03 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Melbourne, Australia (also known as zone Brisbane)
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Ideas for Anti Robot Technology
As per the thread title, I am looking for suggestions for anti Robot technology. This is for a Reign of Steel campaign that varies from TL7 to TL10 where open conflict has broken out between some of the zone minds with humans caught in the middle. All suggestions welcome.
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03-15-2017, 06:32 AM | #2 |
Join Date: Jun 2013
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Re: Ideas for Anti Robot Technology
For purpose-built anti-robot tech, it's tough to beat Microwave Disruptors, which will shut down electronics on a failed (and penalized) HT roll. Failing that, lasers make for decent anti-robot weapons, with their armor divisors and the fact tight beam burning damage doesn't get downgraded by IT:Unliving. In terms of firearms, anything that can get through the robot's armor is better than nothing, even with the IT:Unliving downgrade, but you can make them a lot better with appropriate payloads - SAPHEC can deliver a decent internal explosion, APHEX gives you a smaller explosion but can get through armor more easily, and HEAT/HEMP will make short work of armor and has a decent WM besides. At TL 10, there are also Stingray rounds, where you can hope to rely on the Surge modifier to disrupt the electronics, while with larger caliber weapons you can use the much-more-effective EMP rounds. Vortex ring projectors firing explosive gas, with some sort of self-detonation method, might also be effective. If you've got robots of your own, Devourer and Gremlin swarms can be effective as well - and you can deliver them to the target with a 40mm grenade.
While they probably aren't as effective against robots as people, electrical stun weapons - like electrolasers or stun batons - might also be an option. Offhand, I'd say their "kill" setting would probably function against machines just as their "stun" setting functions against people. |
03-15-2017, 09:36 AM | #3 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Melbourne, Australia (also known as zone Brisbane)
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Re: Ideas for Anti Robot Technology
Any thoughts on really primitive technology like camouflaged pit traps?
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03-15-2017, 11:32 AM | #4 | |
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Re: Ideas for Anti Robot Technology
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Most camouflaged pit traps won't fool radar... and if the camouflaging is thick enough to fool radar, it won't fall under the weight of smaller boots (say less than a ton). Unless the humans have access to some sort of "extra radar bouncy" cloth material (like those "thermal space blankets" or modern sail boat sails). |
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03-15-2017, 12:34 PM | #5 | |
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Re: Ideas for Anti Robot Technology
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What about big, chunking electromagnets? Like for use in scrapyards. How friendly would they be at close range to robotic electronics?
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03-15-2017, 02:32 PM | #6 |
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Location: Irving, TX
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Re: Ideas for Anti Robot Technology
Assault Rifles with Armor Piercing rounds. Yes it is simple but it can be maintained with a limited industrial base.
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03-15-2017, 02:39 PM | #7 | |
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Re: Ideas for Anti Robot Technology
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As far as electronics: magnets aren't actually terribly bad for electronics, and all you have to do to protect against them, generally, is put a ferromagnetic metal box around your electronics.
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03-15-2017, 09:01 PM | #8 | |
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Re: Ideas for Anti Robot Technology
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I am inclined to make trip wires hard for robots to spot, radar doesn't have sufficient resolution and thermography gives no special advantage. |
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03-15-2017, 10:41 PM | #9 |
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Re: Ideas for Anti Robot Technology
Another thought: ground-based robots, at least the wheeled and tracked ones, need bridges over rivers and other obstacles. Such bridges can be boob-trapped, or blown out to screw up robotic logistics.
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03-17-2017, 07:04 PM | #10 | |
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Re: Ideas for Anti Robot Technology
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