03-25-2015, 01:48 PM | #21 | |
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Re: Weapon design - how much can you lighten an artillery barrel?
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03-25-2015, 06:20 PM | #22 | |
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Re: Weapon design - how much can you lighten an artillery barrel?
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That said, there will probably be at least minimal training for marines to get a mortar to hit in the general area of an enemy camp. |
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03-26-2015, 02:17 AM | #23 | |
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This is going to matter depending on how long a marine detachment might see service on a ship at a time. I get the impression that the shipboard marines are split up across the fleet, which would imply long term habitation of a warship: Fleet Marines have a whole separate skill set they have to use on a daily basis than marines dirtside, and a lot of those are likely to overlap with spacer tasks and skills. When those Fleet marines are on the ground, and they need to call for fire support from the battleships? Being familiar with the workings of the fire direction center for the battleship is an amazing boon when you need fire support. Knowing how to crew a weapon emplacement translates over well to using range-finders, targeting computers and optics for your crew served weaponry or howitzers. Being able to do damage control and operate in a vacuum or weightlessness is going to be essential for day to day life on a spaceship. Rather than make them inept artillery, I would probably have them specialized in naval artillery.
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