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For example a major battery beam weapon for a SM+5 ship is 10mJ. This gives 2×cube root of (10,000kJ) or ~43.08d of damage (rounded of to 4d dDamage) for lasers which in will weigh (43.08/3)^3 or 2,963lbs. A single SM+5 system weighs 3,000lbs so that's a perfect fit. But things get a little wonky with guns. At SM+5 I get ~58.9mJ of muzzle energy with velocity of 2mps which drops down to ~14mJ with a velocity of only 1mps which makes it seem like that's what used to stat them.... but then how do they get the 2mps minimum velocity? Yeah, this is why I wish that SJ games didn't freak out of the internet hate that Vehicles 2nd ed got ahd had David keep the numbers hidden (guess it was early enough that it wasn't common knowledge for SJ game that a small anger but vocal minority can cause a fringe idea to become "common knowledge".). Personally, I think that a Generic and Universal system needs to be a little more open. I don't mean, have the numbers be in your face but a side bar or even if it used more abstract numbers and said something like, "The actual numbers can be whatever you want but if you increase the damage of a laser weapon weight goes up by X, shots go down by y and so on." would of been useful. Might have to see if I can get a hold of David and see if he's got the time to answer some questions. Poor guy, every time I send him a PM I almost imagine him going, "Oh no, this guy again! >.<" Quote:
Also, this did give me an excuse to go over and debug my gun stat numbers. Found a simpler way to come up with number of shots of EM guns. Rather that number salad I was using, just figure EM shell weight as 0.000025lbs×(weapons caliber in cm/0.4)^3. Of course this means the round has an aspect ratio of only around 2.1 but.... it is what it is heh.
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Essentially, I noticed that the VTOL-style shuttle can easily boil titanium on landing. This is an attempt to avoid that. |
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Meant to write this last week but works been a bear >.>
So I see you're messing around with gyrocs in your latest posts. Coincidentally enough, I've been working on stating up a 4th ed version of the 30mm gyroc (which I hope to have out by Thursday, thank god I have tomorrow off heh). Because of this I have the rules on how they work fresh on my mind, I've notice you've been kinda over thinking how they work. Basically in 4th ed, if you dumb fire a gyroc you just use GUNS (GYROC). If you take an Aim Maneuver you can add the gyrocs Acc (if it has any) to your attack roll if your next maneuver is an Attack one. If you fire a viper gyroc you need to take an Aim Maneuver to make a lock on roll. This is just a roll vs Artillery (Guided Missile) to make sure that you know how the controls work. To hit the target you just roll vs 10 plus the gyrocs Acc (if any) instead of your skill. Of course that's not to say I'm not interested in some of your ideas as they are interesting. Also to give you some more options, here's a little sneak peak at two options I'm adding to gyrocs in the post I'm working on: High Velocity: 15mm and 30mm gyrocs are available in high velocity versions. These cost the same but trade increased kinetic impact for a greatly reduced range. Range for both types ranges drop to 500 yards but damage increases to 15d pi++ for a 15mm gyrocs and to 6d×5 pi++ for 30mm gyrocs. Guidance Options Laser-Homing: Adds +3 to the gyroc accuracy when making a GUNS (GYROC) roll but requires a target to be lased by a laser sight or designator. Ineffective if the target is covered by smoke, heavy fog, etc. Double the rounds cost. Nano-Optic Guidance: Adds an nano-optic array to the gyroc with advanced optical tracking capability. Increases a gyrocs Acc by +3 when fired using GUNS (GYROC). Triple the rounds cost. Oh and note that the price for a 15mm micromissle is wrong, it should be $20, not $50 dollars.
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This is me trying (and failing) to reproduce THS' railgun, and an alternative I built. |
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In so far as I know the only change Transhuman Space made to EM weapons was rule that when figuring WPS P is always 0.2. This should make each round weigh 27.9lbs.... hmmmm wonder if David somehow made a mistake and made P 0.02.... But then again assuming each burst fires 10 shots a extremely long barreled EMgun firing a 27.9lbs shot does come up to 1,676MJ... Also you can get the weight of the gun up to 21.6tons if you make it a TL10 (3rd scale), extremely long barreled gun with a heavy automatic action. But for damage and other stats... yeah I get the same results as you. So yeah, I'm not sure what's going on with the railgun from Deep Beyond. The weird thing is that personal scale EM weapons work just fine using Vehicles. The 15mm Emag rifle from main Transhuman Space book lines up perfectly. Deep Beyond was written by David so the chances of its stats being a mistake are a lot less likely then if it was handled by another author.... Wonder if he found that giving railguns a G modifier of 4 was under cutting their performance vs real world examples at the time (a G of 16 seems to work). It also doesn't help that the combat system used by Transhuman Space abstracts things a bit.... So I guess add a new option for G called Railgun and give it a value of 16 is about the only option I can come up with ATM.
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