Re: [FT]Variable Fire Arcs...

On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, John Leary wrote:

> Donald Hosford wrote:
>
> > Anyone who insists on using ships with more than two 360 degree
> > weapons and is using these rules is CHEATING!  Enough said!)
>    
> CHEAT DESIGN CENTRAL IS ONLINE.

CHEAT DESIGN AUXILIARRY UNIT ACTIVE ...

> 2. You are thinking in two axis mode (yaw and roll),
>    you forgot the pitch axis.
> 
> 3. A large number of 360 arc weapons can be mounted on a ship
>    in a line (think star destroyer bottom), and all have 360
>    arc coverage.   The secret is to do pitch corrections to
>    uncover the required arcs for fire.   These corrections
>    are (in the scale of FT/MT/FB) so small that thrust (points)
>    would not be required to make them.

it is possible to imagine a design where you had a tower of all-round
turrets, each stacked on another, like a wedding cake.

alternatively, think of a stack of discs, like a Tower of Hanoi, with a
gun mount which can go round each terrace:

	    |---| #
	|-----------| #
    |-------------------| #
|---------------------------|

where a # is a gun platform. all these guns have 360 fire arcs. this may
look daft, but if the mount is just a reflector for a beam generator
buried inside the hull, it's practical.

> CDC is offline.

CDAU GOING INTO ACCESS STANDBY ...

Tom