Comparison of Space Beam Weapons in GURPS Vehicles, 2 Ed.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Recently, I started doing some conversions of FGU’s Space Opera to GURPS, specifically Starships of War, Vol. 1. e.

Well, at least I am familiar with all the books in question. I ran Space Opera back in 1980 when it was new, including what you are calling "Starships of War". I think there was a "Seldon" in there

The main game is here at drivethrurpg

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...also_purchased

....with links at the bottom to all the supplements I know of.

My first comment is that you obviously aren't trying for a very literal conversion. The ranges of the largest Nova Guns from Space Opera are over 1000 light-seconds or 2 AU. If you were trying to attack Earth you could be shot at by orbital fortresses around Mars.

You might want to add the fTL modifier to help represent the range scale advantages of Nova Guns.

My second comment is that you also seem to be using Gurps Space 1e. that has to be where the "FP" is coming from and I find this choice strange. There sems to be little point to starting with the nuts and bolts detail from Ve2 if you're going to end up with the abstract siimplicity of Space 1e.

My third comnet is a simple quetion. Are you multiplying weapon ranges for use out of atmosphere? Your numbers don't look like you are at a glance. I haven't tried to duplicate your work.

Maybe more later.