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They will need extraordinary levels of clothing, including heated clothing. Since the ASN don't have modern plastics, their equipment will be bulkier and heavier than modern stuff. |
Depending on how advanced 1940s insulated and heated clothing is, it might be worth using the Sealed ritual that is used for zeppelin airbags on one or more of the layers. The warming spells for heating the hydrogen might also be useful to make heated clothing, if the technology to do that is expensive or hard to work with at their level of technology and infrastructure.
Even if not everybody gets magic space suits, maybe enough outer layers with Sealed and warming effects so that anyone who has to stand regular shifts outside can put one on while he does.
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Something that may seem weird to the PCs is that the ASN will be trained to move slowly and deliberately, because getting sweaty is very dangerous. The sweat freezes and destroys the insulating properties of clothing.
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Yeah, that will seem pretty strange to the PCs, as they are sauntering about feeling no more cold than a low thermostat setting, thanks to a Path of Energy ritual that keeps them warm and insulated, regardless of clothing or exerction.
Of course, their merry band of pirates might not enjoy sailing into colder climes. In several hours of cruising after the PCs met them, the average temperature around the
Rocinante has dropped by -45° C or so and the several layers of furs worn by the sky pirates are nowhere near enough any longer. Most of the pirates have taken to the crew deck with alchemical braziers, magically warm stones, blankets and more furs, trying stay warm somehow. While Don Rafael de la Vega is still eager to aid the rescue of any fair maid from a foul fiend, he'll have a challenge on his hands if he means to order his crew to battle stations in such deadly cold, let alone if he were to tell them to prepare to land and go out on foot.
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Take a look at this diagram of the top of the pillar. Weapons should clearly be placed at points of the pentagram, on the rim of the top of the pillar.
Imagine the heated hut being placed at the intersection just below the middle of the diagram. The two points below it on the rim of the pillar will be the warmest, but they are cramped for space because of the hut, and one of them will have the top of the lift mechanism. I'd mount an MG42 in the lift, for defense against attackers on the ground, and another at the other warm point.
Mount 2 cm flak guns on the points at the left and right of the diagram. Don't try to put a weapon on the point at the top of the diagram, because that's where the airship mooring mast is, and if the airship is there, it's just too easy to shoot it by accident. |
Ok, so the total armament of the pillar superstructure is two 2 cm flak guns and two MG42s.
Is it better to mount the lower velocity MG FF 20mm autocannons and the more powerful MK 108 30mm autocannon on the top of a lower structure?