[Spaceships] Weapons Pods

Snoman314 · 10-13-2009, 06:30 PM

I also think its an interesting idea to work on.
Would you recalculate the ships acceleration and dV or just use small pods relative to the ship?
How would these pods be attached? What would that mean for the resulting firing arc?
I imagine this being difficult to make work without being prepared to be a bit loose with the spaceships rules.

Crakkerjakk · 10-13-2009, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Snoman314

I also think its an interesting idea to work on.
Would you recalculate the ships acceleration and dV or just use small pods relative to the ship?
How would these pods be attached? What would that mean for the resulting firing arc?
I imagine this being difficult to make work without being prepared to be a bit loose with the spaceships rules.

You'd have to recalculate based on the combined masses if using an external clamp, even with small pods. The larger the ship, the less it would effect the performance.

I'd use the standard rules for a spinal beam in combat. Damage determination would be a bit tricky, but I'm sure some sort of acceptable handwave can be arrived at.

cccwebs · 10-14-2009, 05:13 AM

Damage calculation shouldn't be too tricky. Just state which section a pod is attached to and have a random chance of hitting the pod instead of the ship if that location is hit. Of course, the pods themselves can always be targeted instead of the ship they are attached to. As for firing arc, this would have to be determined when the pod is attacked to the ship and would be fixed unless the pod is removed/reattached.

10-13-2009, 06:30 PM	#1
Snoman314 Join Date: Sep 2009	Re: [Spaceships] Weapons Pods I also think its an interesting idea to work on. Would you recalculate the ships acceleration and dV or just use small pods relative to the ship? How would these pods be attached? What would that mean for the resulting firing arc? I imagine this being difficult to make work without being prepared to be a bit loose with the spaceships rules.

10-14-2009, 05:13 AM	#3
cccwebs Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Orange County, VA	Re: [Spaceships] Weapons Pods Damage calculation shouldn't be too tricky. Just state which section a pod is attached to and have a random chance of hitting the pod instead of the ship if that location is hit. Of course, the pods themselves can always be targeted instead of the ship they are attached to. As for firing arc, this would have to be determined when the pod is attacked to the ship and would be fixed unless the pod is removed/reattached.