other GMS types

Ryan said:
Active Radiating units would be CBR and 
ADS that are active.
Everything else is too difficult. Command 
posts would have
multiple emitters that are placed remote 
from the CP as
would most other basic comms type units.

[Tomb] I don't believe this matches the 
way CF EW units trained. They trained to 
be highly mobile because the minute they 
went active, they started the clock on 
being located and destroyed. I believe 
emission homing weapons were not 
unlikely to destroy EW vehicles using mast-
jammers. Someone on the list who may 
have worked on an EW jammer vehicle may 
care to comment on my perception. I would 
think GSR units might also be destroyable 
this way. 

GMS that resolves like Artiller for the 
designated stuff.
Missile Launches, red force activates a unit, 
blue force
designates and resolves attack. Given the 
general type, this
would always be a GMS/H.

[Tomb] Today yes. It is quite possible to 
envision a HARM GMS/P by 2183. 

stopped with ADS/PDS would be hard. It's 
still going to hit and it will be landing on 
the top armor.

[Tomb] Another modern day assumption. 
DS2 construction rules make top armour far 
more effective than modern equivalents 
(DS3 may allow you choice). Is there any 
particular reason the 2183 missile may 
target top as opposed to side or rear? Not 
that I know of. 

 Some design work
has been done on Kinetic energy guided 
missiles. A
copperhead, Hellfire, or Maverick landing on 
top of your
tank even with out a war head isn't going 
to be good for the
tank.

[Tomb] This hinges on the 8/3/1 ratio of 
top/side/rear armour (or something like it) 
that OO quoted. This is NOT the case in 
the DS2 construction system, which 
suggests this threat has been analyzed and 
responded to by 2183 by upgunned armour 
on the off facings (as the ratio in DS2 is 
N/N-1/N-1). Therefore, although such off-
angle attack missiles are useful, they are 
not as big a threat as their modern 
equivalent. 
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