[Spaceships] Warhead system

[adimar]

Hi All.
I have a TL10,SM4 design for a drone space fighter. (HEDM engine).
One of it's distinguishing features is a 3slot modular weapons pod(front section).
I designed a laser pod (2xFixed UV Laser + MHD turbine)
and a torpedo pod (2xLauncher + RF conventional)
I also wanted to design an option to fill the modular section with a single massive bomb (turning the entire craft into a torpedo).
The closest reference I found was the conversion of a launcher to a bomb bay
(tippling weapons load of a launcher).

How would you stat the BOMB system?

Adi

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by adimar

How would you stat the BOMB system?

Treat it like cargo space, and then figure the statistics of the warhead based on what fits?

[munin]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Treat it like cargo space, and then figure the statistics of the warhead based on what fits?

If you calculate it based on warheads, you can fit a 32cm electromagnetic or grav gun warhead in an SM+4 Cargo Bay, which does 6d×8 dDamage.

You could also calculate the damage of a Cargo Bay full of explosives (not packed into a warhead designed to be launched). An SM+4 Cargo Bay holds 0.5 tons, which is 6d×12 dDamage at TL9 (Plastex B, $20K), 6d×15 at TL10 (High-Energy Explosive, $40K), 6d×20 at TL11 and 6d×28 at TL12 (Plasma Explosive, $100K) -- see p. UT88. Explosion dDamage does not scale linearly with number of cargo bays.

Also, just colliding with another ship will do at least 6d×45×(mps) dDamage (see Ramming or Colliding Spacecraft, p. SS61).

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by munin

Also, just colliding with another ship will do at least 6d×45×(mps) dDamage (see Ramming or Colliding Spacecraft, p. SS61).

Yeah, Kinetic Kill is almost always going to be better than a non-nuke payload. On the other hand you should be able to fit a pretty big nuke or antimatter warhead in there.

[Snoman314]

3 SM+4 modules as cargo give 1.5 tons, which would let you fit a 56cm bomb, thats 6dx140. Given that a dedicated SM+4 missile does 6dx240-280, that seems pretty good to me.

[Snoman314]

No, wait my bad, 6dx14 and 6dx24-28 respectively. looking at the old damage table. Yeah the collision is going to do the most damage no matter what you load up with.