Mini Rocket Platforms : Only Light or Mini Rockets ?

[Racer]

I remembered something from ADQ&A 4/4 (I think) , about Mini Rocket Platforms can ONLY mount Light Rockets or Mini Rockets , and not Medium , Heavy or Super Rockets (let alone Artillery Rockets ...) .

Mini Rocket Platforms - $75 , 50lbs , holds 1 Space of Rockets - were introduced in ADQ Volume 4 , Number 3 (Page 6 , so Uncle Albert's ?) .
I had my copy ADQ 4/4 stolen in the early 1990s , so can't refer to it & never saw the original item .

Only time I recall the Mini Rocket Platform being used is the Subcompact in ADQ 4/4 (the Starhawk ? Page 39) , which mounted two linked Laser Guided/Unguided Light Rockets on the Platform .

None of the CWCs or UACFH ever alluded to this restriction again .

I wonder if it was quitely dropped , like the 'Matching Weight' Rule mentioned for Side Sponson Turrets in in ADQ 9/3 ... and never brought up again ?

Any information or feedback welcomed guys .

[43Supporter]

Originally Posted by Racer

I remembered something from ADQ&A 4/4 (I think) , about Mini Rocket Platforms can ONLY mount Light Rockets or Mini Rockets , and not Medium , Heavy or Super Rockets (let alone Artillery Rockets ...) .

I just looked up the entry in _Uncle Al's Catalog 2038_; it does state "only 1/3- or 1/2 space rockets due to structural limitations" there. It appears to have been deleted in blue-cover _Compendium_.

[Racer]

Originally Posted by 43Supporter

I just looked up the entry in _Uncle Al's Catalog 2038_; it does state "only 1/3- or 1/2 space rockets due to structural limitations" there. It appears to have been deleted in blue-cover _Compendium_.

Thank you !

Someone wanted to mount an Artillery Rocket on a Light Trike ATV & we were discussing why it was probably 'A Bad Idea' ! Lol

Guess we'll Rule this as unfeasible to that Player ...

[ckosacranoid]

They could mount it...But the story blank and blue or something with the effect of mounting 3 autocannons to a rocket platform.....You can do it...But will rip the roof after the first or 2nd shot.

[43Supporter]

I'd have to look again, but: I'm not sure Rocket Platforms can use Rocket [Extra] Magazines; so having a 1-sp. rocket on a 1-sp. platform seems a tad inefficient.

[Racer]

Originally Posted by 43Supporter

I'd have to look again, but: I'm not sure Rocket Platforms can use Rocket [Extra] Magazines; so having a 1-sp. rocket on a 1-sp. platform seems a tad inefficient.

Rocket Plantforms can't use Rocket Magazines & neither can Rocket EWPs .

Turrets (of course) can use them & after the UACFH Rule Change , so can Rockets in Standard EWPs .