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- From: Jesse.Taylor@launchpad.unc.edu (Jesse Taylor)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
- Subject: On the thread of realistic 'mech weapons... (sorta)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.145648.6685@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 14:56:48 GMT
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- Wire-Guided Short Range Missiles (WGSRMs)
-
- Wire-Guided STM launchers are similar to Streak SRMs, except that
- the missiles are somwhat bulkier. To work, WGSRM launchers must be linked
- to a Beagle Probe for accurate telemetry data, and include a
- flight-control computer. These two components together take up .5 tons and
- 1 critical space. If the 'mech using WGSRMs has a valid Line-Of-Sight with
- it's target, and it makes a to-hit roll at -2 using the ranges for normal
- SRMs, all the missiles hit. Otherwise, the missile load is expended, but
- no damage occurs to any unit. During the course of flight, if the WGSRMs
- pass through any hex with light woods, a 'mech, a VTOL, a level 2 or
- higher building, or a hovertank, there is a 2 in 6 chance of the wires
- being cut, causing the missiles to attack the unit that cut the wires
- (making to-hit and # of missiles rolls as if they were attacking at short
- range). If the WGSRMs are launched at a target protected or in the radius
- of Guardian ECM, their roll to-hit loses the -2 bonus, and they get a +4
- on the missile to-hit table instead of all automatically hitting. If the
- launching 'mech is also in the radius of the ECM feild, the WGSRMs are
- fired like normal SRMs, though wire-cutting restrictions still apply. Hits
- to the link or the beagle probe cause the WGSRMs to function as normal
- SRMs. WGSRMs cost twice as much as the normal SRMs and there are 10% less
- of them in an x-ton magazine (thus 1 to of WGSRM-6 ammo is 13 shots). The
- link and targetting computer together cost 25,000 C-Bills.
-
- Like, whoa.
-
- JT
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