RE: DS2 Multiple weapons in turret questions:

The rules state "any element may only fore ONE weapon system per combat
action. Multiple mount weapons of the same type and class may count as
one
system for this (e.g. a vehicle with twin MDC/4 barrels in its turret
MAY
fire them both together, but only at the saem target. If it instead had
a
single MDC/4 and a secondary MDC/2, these would have to be counted as
different weapons and only one or the other could be fired in one Combat
Action." (p18)

So only one could be fired per element. But different elements within a
unit
may choose to fire different weapons. So it can make some since
(HEL/DFFG is
a good combination due to the extra firepower of the DFFG and the range
of
the HEL).

Another problem that I identified was a rule that I have overlooked in
the
past:
"HMT powered vehicles may support HEL or MDC systems up to ONE SIZE
CLASS
LOWER then the vehicle size (eg: maximum of class-3 weapon on class 4
vehicles)." (p10)  The Lt. TD violates this unless it uses FGP.

I think that both of these are easily overlooked when designing forces
for
the first time (or until someone points it out).

-----
Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net
http://members.xoom.com/ds2/	 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn m wilson [SMTP:triphibious@juno.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 3:35 AM
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	DS2 Multiple weapons in turret questions:
> 
> 1)  It's pretty clear in the basics how main weapons in turrets are
> designed to be used; pages 28-30 pretty clearly cover main guns in
direct
> fire.
> 
> 2)  It's also clear when two weapons of the same class in a turret act
> (page 32.)
> 
> 3)  It's pretty clear that when a main gun and an APSW are in the same
> turret you can only fire one at a time at Infantry (page. 35) although
it
> seems to make the traditional cannon and secondary APSW combination in
> WW2 and today's turrets pretty much an either/or and forbids 'both
> together' in a combat round.	Quibble, quibble, quibble.
> 
> 4)  What's not so clear is what happens when some nut case (like
myself)
> designs a series of vehicles with multiple weapons of different
classes
> for a unit.
> 
[snip forces]

> Obviously it is in the dual weapons of different systems/sizes that it
> gets unclear to me.  [The size three and four vehicles.]  Do I treat
this
> as firing one OR the other system only per round,  or Do I treat this
as
> two separate attacks (?!?) per round, or do I (assuming both are in
> range) treat this a similar (a variant) to the 'twin turret"	(page
32,
> Multiple Mount Weapons) rule?  If I had to make a 'house rule' right
now
> I would choose to make both weapons fire, rolling an appropriate die
for
> the individual weapon's range (range 50 inches - HKP/5 long range,
HEl/2
> short range.)
> 
> What's the group consensus?
> 
> Gracias.
> Glenn
> 
> Triphibious Marines = Nektons.
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> 
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