Wildstar:
>> Using a DU penetrator with a slenderness of 1:100 (normal today is
>> 1:20) around 400kg, but that slenderness might be physically
>> impossible (too slender and it will break instead of penetrating).
>> With a slenderness of 1:20... twelve tons. Yes, this might make a
>> good excuse.
>I think a 1:100 penetrator would be too slender; Uranium isn't a
>particularly strong metal ... and it makes a decent reason for not
>having a KEAPDU missile.
Nonsense. Or are you silly enough to believe that the penetrator MUST
be as long as the missile is? Put a 400Kg 1:20 penetrator in the
missile, so what if it is short?
Bertil:
>> From: [email removed]
>> Subject: Swords and Karate...
>> Bertil:
>> > I still don't understand how you mean. Could you write the example
>> >down briefly?
>> Armour absorbs hits equal to twice its armour levels when hit by a
>> sword (indeed, any melee weapon, except bare hands). So a sword
>> (damage 2) does NOT penetrate AC1.
> Ok, I interpret the sword as doing 2d6 and AC1 as absorbing 2 of
>these. While the word 'hits' are used wrgt Armour in Armed Melee
>Combat on page 272, and 'points' wrgt Armour in Unarmed Melee Combat on
>page 269, 'hits' is used to mean the same as 'points' wrgt Armour in
>Unarmed Melee Combat on page 270.
This means that a man in TL10 Battledress is immune to any slugthrower
short of a LAG using DS, or an ARL using HEAP, but that a man with a
sword can kill him fairly easily...
> Hmm, this weighing of words sounds a little silly, doesn't it? :)
Yes.
>> From: [email removed]
>> Subject: solid fuel missiles...
>> In anticipation of Bertil's counter that we should develop some solid
>> fuel missiles with only a few G-hours of delta-V,
> Ouch! Apparently I should run Maneuver/Evade more often if I'm that
>predictable:)
Yep, you sure should...:-)
>> For a 150Kg dry mass (warhead, electronics, structure, NO fuel), a
>> missile with ONE G-hour delta-V requires 70,936,947Kg of the best
>> solid fuel we make today.
> Ok, but what are the equivalent numbers for hydrogen/oxygen or
>NERVA-type nuclear fission rockets?
(assuming the same 150Kg dry mass)
H2-O2: 1 G-hour: 381,000Kg fuel.
2 G-hour: 967,900,000Kg fuel.
NERVA: 1 G-hour: 13,800Kg.
2 G-hour: 1,273,000Kg.
> And (nasty question) what are the equivalent numbers for a fusion
>rocket powered missile? :)
I guesstimated an Isp of 2,000,000 based on the minimum from the three
ship types I bothered to check on, which ranged from 2,000,000 to just
over 3,000,000.
1 G-hour: 265 GRAMS.
2 G-hour: 530 GRAMS.
Presumably, the missile would not have quite so efficient (read:
EXPENSIVE) a drive as a ship though. But it'll still be trivial...
Wildstar:
>> IMHO it is good to have the info in the basic world data somewhere,
>> instead of having to scan through the extra data for each world to
>> find it.
>As an example, note the description of Montezuma starting on T:TNE
>pp.98; the narrator herself notes that the world's government is not
>particularly ornerous (but comments that *in her opinion* it may become
>so at some future time); the farmers are not yet peasants, there is
>currently a merchant class, and the world enjoys offworld trade on what
>seems to be a regular (if infrequent) basis. But the RCES seems to
>have decided that the world is a TED, and that they're going to
>liberate the not-yet-peasants from their not-yet-masters!
Exactly why I ALREADY despise the Arses. Note that in the first of the
canned adventures, the PCs are hired by the Arses to bring down a Church
and a TED.
The Church is described as one of which the Arses know "not a lot", but
"the Church does a lot of good by the way. Their hospitals and clinics
take care of the sick..." and "the Church considers itself a force for
justice, and often has been successful in moderating the worst excesses
of local warlords...". This is described as "the bad news", and the PCs
are sent off to bring this Church down, and the local governments with
them.
I mean, are these guys GREAT examples of HEROES, and GOOD GUYS, or
what???
---Steve Higginbotham