03-29-2020, 05:50 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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How much in my weapon mount?
If I buy Extra Arm (Weapon Mount, -80%) [2], how large a weapon can I put there? Anything that can be held in one hand? Including weapons marked with M?
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03-29-2020, 06:35 AM | #2 |
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Meifumado
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Re: How much in my weapon mount?
Perhaps your Arm ST has to meet the MinST requirement.
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03-29-2020, 07:18 AM | #3 |
Join Date: Aug 2019
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Re: How much in my weapon mount?
You can carry any weapon in that arm, regardless of it's statistics etc, just like in a normal arm.
The issue comes up when you actually want to use it. The ST requirement needs to be met otherwise you suffer penalties. Since you only bought 1 arm, it counts as 1 arm for all intents and purposes. That means that any two-handed weapon requires x2 of it's listed ST. Ie, shotgun with ST 10-dagger requires 20 ST to wield one handed without penalties (which would be -10, and you'd suffer extra fatigue). The M next to ST means only one thing - IGNORE it's ST requirement when it's mounted, usually on a vehicle or a tripod, if you're not the object it's mounted on. Think machine gun mounted on car roof. So, if you want to wield a 22M weapon, you simply need 44 Arm ST, assuming that the weapon is otherwise two-handed (which it usually is, M weapon is extremely rarely one-handed). If you dont want to have 44 Arm ST, buy a second Weapon Mount Arm and tell the GM that both are used with one two-handed weapon. P.S.: If for some reason you or your GM do not believe that M is also implicitly a dagger, making all mounted weapons one-handed, do not double ST.
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03-29-2020, 12:28 PM | #4 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: How much in my weapon mount?
Anything that you could hold with an extra arm that doesn't have weapon mount. It's just a single purpose arm.
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04-01-2020, 11:29 PM | #5 | |
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Re: How much in my weapon mount?
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If you want to have a discussion about whether or not the M rated weapons in High Tech and Ultra Tech should also have or even , that's a whole nother thing. But by RAW, 22M doesn't mean "needs ST 44" to wield with 1 hand if removed from the mount. |
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