Re: [FT] nasty idea for spinal mounts

McCarthy, Tom wrote:

>Jim Bell is always quick to come up with a radical idea.  He proposed
>that spinal mounts might do damage down columns (vertical rather >than
horizontal).

[snip]

You have pin-pointed most of their drawbacks, yes :-/ 

One important consideration is this: Do they hit the first *column*, or
do they hit the first remaining box in the *uppermost row* and go
straight down from there?

If they hit the first *column*, they need to inflict at least 50% more
damage than a similarly-massed/arced/ranged normal weapon in order to
compensate for their near inability to inflict threshold checks...

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

"Life is like a sewer.
  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
- Hen3ry