Graviton Beam damage type

[jacobmuller]

Just wondering if the damage type should be similar to the implosion shells, ie cr dkb ex instead of just cr. I want to use them for artillery (that's the skill they use anyway) and as tank main guns, eg 6dx5(∞) cr ex 500miles/1,500miles. But should they also be dkb?

Graviton Cannon UT129, is about the same size as a major battery for an SM+6 spaceship, delivers 6dx5(∞) damage and

Heavy graviton beams may envelop and crush a man-sized target...A single shot can reduce a man to a walnut-sized sphere

- that describes an implosion radius to me.

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by jacobmuller

Just wondering if the damage type should be similar to the implosion shells, ie cr dkb ex instead of just cr. I want to use them for artillery (that's the skill they use anyway) and as tank main guns, eg 6dx5(∞) cr ex 500miles/1,500miles. But should they also be dkb?

I do not think so. The double knockback effect on the Implosion represents being pulled in to the center of the AoE. Graviton Beams only affect what the beam evelops.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by jacobmuller

Graviton Cannon UT129, is about the same size as a major battery for an SM+6 spaceship, delivers 6dx5(∞) damage and - that describes an implosion radius to me.

When the largest Graviton beam weapon in UT does 6Dx5 (non-explosive) and the smallest Implosion warhead does 6Dx25 cr ex dbk + 6Dx40 tox rad ex it looks to me like we're simply talking totally different effects.

The man into walnut flavor text is probably just more of UT''s hyperbole anyway. On average, a man hit by this heavy tank sized weapon could be brought back by a Chrysalis Pod (a state where B.424 calls a corpse "mostly intact") though he'll be close to the point where that's not possible without cloning.

[jacobmuller]

Sorry for delayed response - brain pain:)

OPB Not another shrubbry: Graviton Beams only affect what the beam evelops.

That's pretty much what I want to represent.

OPB Fred Brackin: it looks to me like we're simply talking totally different effects

I agree. Massive difference in scale of damage. But what if the Graviton Cannon were from something like an SM+15 Spinal mount? If the 6dx5 cannon envelops an SM0 target, how big a target does a 6dx25 beam grab?

Okay, found it in the text [note to self - learn how to Read]. Graviton Are implosion but on a different scale, and have no knockback. They envelop an area of Dice damage inches... Not much of an artillery weapon except:
You cannot use counter battery fire against no-signature weapons firing from cover somewhere within a half million square miles of you.
And the terror effect - each trooper, alone in her suit, waiting for the Thump of near misses to pass, praying they keep missing - a single hit will turn her to paste.