Re: Falkenburg's Legion, CoDominion, and stats (Long)

In a message dated 3/17/00 7:26:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
bbilderback@hotmail.com writes:

> Interesting that we both came up with similar stats for the
cataphract, 
only 
>  a couple things I'd disagree on there:
>  
>  1.  On the 76mm gun version, despite the "Rapid fire" reference in
the 
book, 
> 
>  an RFAC 2 seems a bit weak.	I went with an HKPor HVC 3.  The 125 mm
gun 
>  mentioned in Go Tell the Spartans was the Arty vehicle, not a direct
fire 
>  weapon, I made it light arty, keeping it on the class 2 chassis.  I
don't 
>  recall a 155 mm version (OK, I used the phrase 155mm when I first
posted 
on 
>  this topic, but that was in error.)

The 125mm gun mentioned was listed as a 125 mm Rocket Howitzer.  What
the 
heck is a "Rocket Howitzer?"  I assumed a low-velocity gun giving a
boost to 
a hyper-velocity rocket--a neat way to achieve high velocity with very
low 
recoil (important since it was mounted on a light vehicle).  Maybe I'm 
stretching things, but a single barrel/rail 125mm rocket launcher for 
indirect fire seemed to be a real waste of material to me.  That plus
the 
fact that the Royal Spartan towed rocket artillery used 127mm ammunition
(not 
125mm) from 6-barreled launchers sort of convinced me--why have two
weapons 
(125 mm vs 127 mm rockets) that are that close in size and (probably)
effect? 
 Unless, of course, they were completely DIFFERENT in employment and
effect.

And they do specifically mention the 155mm version of the Cataphract in
the 
last book (and that it has a very large boxy turret).
 
>  
>  2. For the CoDo tank, based on the excerpt at the end of GTtS when
they're 
>  fighting the CoDo Marines in Sparta City, I'd say you could argue for
a 
>  class 4 vehicle/class 5 weapon, but it could go either way there. 
Other 
>  than that, What I REMEMBER seems ti jive with what you came up with, 
though 
>  it's been a while.
>  
>  Brian B
>  

The fact that the CoDO has to ship EVERYTHING argued for the smallest 
practical size in that case.  Especially since just about everyone
else's 
stuff was so small--for example I made the Suslov a size 2, but it MUST
be no 
more than 4 tons (maximum cargo limit of the assault lander that carried
one 
to Tanith), which is probably more like size 1.  I had to make it size 2

bacause it was armed with a 135mm gun--something that sounded like more
than 
a HKP 2.

Any, that's why I gave the ratings I did.  I do have the advantage of
having 
just read the whole series back-to-back, which I didn't do the first
time I 
read this stuff.  Still, a lot of the info is vague so your mileage may
(and 
probably will) vary.  

I gave lots of the vehicles a LAD capability since everyone did their
best to 
keep aircraft out of combat, suggesting that there would be REALLY heavy

losses if they didn't.	LAD was the closest thing I could come up with
that 
would have some effect on aircraft and not take up an entire vehicle's 
weapons fit.

Anyone come up with ideas for the Covenanters?

Rob
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