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Old 05-30-2021, 12:25 AM   #1
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So I'm trying to find decent heavy armaments for a SM 11 TL5ish fantasy airship. Hightech unfortunately doesn't get into anything heavier then the Napoleon really which is unfortunate. The heavy Parrott rifles seem like they would be more what I'm looking for, but I have no idea what the damage codes should be.
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Old 05-30-2021, 12:34 AM   #2
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There are some nice stats for historical cannons and siege weapons in GURPS Fantasy.

Depending if your airship floats via magic or by lighter than air, a google search for blimp, cargo lifter, zeppelin etc can help. There is a new created passenger blimp for ca 100 passengers, but itīs still not openly on the market and therefore may be under the radar of most people.
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Old 05-30-2021, 12:58 AM   #3
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There are some nice stats for historical cannons and siege weapons in GURPS Fantasy.
Not TL5 guns. The closest it comes to the request is a 24-pounder TL 4 cannon. Massive US Civil War naval/siege cannon are not to be found there.
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Old 05-30-2021, 02:09 AM   #4
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There are some nice stats for historical cannons and siege weapons in GURPS Fantasy.

Depending if your airship floats via magic or by lighter than air, a google search for blimp, cargo lifter, zeppelin etc can help. There is a new created passenger blimp for ca 100 passengers, but itīs still not openly on the market and therefore may be under the radar of most people.
Not that kinda Airship. Building it using spaceship rules and components from spaceships 7: divergent and paranormal tech. Gonna be a huge orichalcum clad ship flying around propelled by a pair of Ether Screws and powered by a caged spirit.
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Old 05-30-2021, 05:26 AM   #5
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GURPS Vehicles: Steampunk Conveyances has stats for (along with the TL5 Gatling Gun, Nordenfelt 1" and Hotchkiss 1-pounder and 3-pounder cannons, the TL6 Maxim Gun, and TL6 6-pounders and 12-pounders), TL6 6" and 12" cannons.

(Though in fact, that partly just means that I borrowed from the best. GURPS High-Tech: Adventure Guns has multiple Gatling, Hotchkiss, Nordenfelt and Maxim mechanical rapid-fire guns, and two Hotchkiss cannons - and also a TL6 4" Elswick naval cannon, complete with Spaceships stats.)
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Old 05-30-2021, 10:00 AM   #6
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GURPS Vehicles: Steampunk Conveyances has stats for (along with the TL5 Gatling Gun, Nordenfelt 1" and Hotchkiss 1-pounder and 3-pounder cannons, the TL6 Maxim Gun, and TL6 6-pounders and 12-pounders), TL6 6" and 12" cannons.

(Though in fact, that partly just means that I borrowed from the best. GURPS High-Tech: Adventure Guns has multiple Gatling, Hotchkiss, Nordenfelt and Maxim mechanical rapid-fire guns, and two Hotchkiss cannons - and also a TL6 4" Elswick naval cannon, complete with Spaceships stats.)
I am aware, but all of that is to light. I need TL 5 heavy artillery stats, Like the Parrott rifles I mentioned, which fire 200 & 300 pound shells. GURPS dosen't even seem to have stats for 24 pound howitzers of that period anywhere.

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Old 05-30-2021, 03:32 PM   #7
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Not that kinda Airship. Building it using spaceship rules and components from spaceships 7: divergent and paranormal tech. Gonna be a huge orichalcum clad ship flying around propelled by a pair of Ether Screws and powered by a caged spirit.
Good to know Iīm working for some time to create a Fantasy / SciFi mix and know now where to look for ideas and rules. By the way GURPS High Tech has some TL 5 canons but the biggest there seems to be a 12 pounder.
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Old 05-30-2021, 04:02 PM   #8
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I am aware, but all of that is to light. I need TL 5 heavy artillery stats, Like the Parrott rifles I mentioned, which fire 200 & 300 pound shells. GURPS dosen't even seem to have stats for 24 pound howitzers of that period anywhere.
At least in current edition books there's very little coverage of weapons that are much past 'personal scale' at any tech level.

Guns that throw shells heavier than most player characters are, sadly, not the kind of thing that you're likely to find!

Might be able to devise your own, though, from ballistics data. The stickiest stat for things like this tends to be reloading time. Or acc maybe. (It would be rcl, but that's meaningless for such weapons.)
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Old 05-30-2021, 04:14 PM   #9
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So I'm trying to find decent heavy armaments for a SM 11 TL5ish fantasy airship. Hightech unfortunately doesn't get into anything heavier then the Napoleon really which is unfortunate. The heavy Parrott rifles seem like they would be more what I'm looking for, but I have no idea what the damage codes should be.
1) What is the purpose of these armaments, and 2) what is the purpose of stats for them? The damage rules are not the best choice for large vehicles shooting at each other or airships bombarding forts.

I second the suggestion to look at GURPS Spaceships to see if it has weapon-design rules or a generic 20 cm black-powder rifle.
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Old 05-30-2021, 04:34 PM   #10
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Gurps Vehicles should be able to get you at least the right damage number, if you have the book.
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