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- From: lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex)
- Subject: Re: Which weapon is best? (Was: Re: btech lrm)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.205628.14400@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom; Renegade User
- References: <BzMw60.Lt4@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec25.013509.7246@netcom.com> <BzzAo9.GGz@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:56:28 GMT
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- In article <BzzAo9.GGz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dv52151@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (RedSwordTarga) writes:
- >lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex) writes:
- >> _
- >> /-\s you can see, the Pulse ML actually beats the ER ML for range
- >> everywhere except at ranges beyond 12, PLUS it has that nice 2 less
- >> to-hit on ranges below 5. It may weigh a ton more, but it does 1 less
- >> heat. Using regular heat sinks, they're even. Using double heat sinks,
- >> the Pulse ML is only down half a ton. (Reminds me of comparisons
- >> between the PPC and the AC/5, when BattleTech/Droids first came out. :)
- >
- >Yes, but that extra ton really counts a lot. You can run 5 ER Mediums and
- >a targeting (sp?) computer for 6 tons. That only gets you 3 Pulses.
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- _
- /-\h, but those 5 ER mediums are going to give you 25 heat if you
- fire all of them. The 3 Pulse mediums are only going to give you 12.
- So those 5 ER MLs would require 13 DSHSes, for a total of 19 tons.
- For 20 tons you could get 5 Pulse MLs (20 heat), plus 10 DSHS. Both
- do equal damage, so it looks like a pretty even tradeoff, when you add
- in heat sinks. Except that the Pulse MLs still give you that extra -1
- at 1-4, 6-8, and 11-12 hexes over the ER MLs w/ Targeting Computer.
- The ER MLs/Tg C win out with a -1 over the PMLs at 5, 9-10, and 13-15
- hexes. I'll still take the Pulse MLs, thanks. (:
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