Re: [GZG] A Heavy Missile Question

["david smith" <bifsmith207@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I always think of heavy missile warheads as being bomb-pumped laser that 
> fire from a few hundred km away. If you picture it the same way, then "no."
>
> If on the other hand you picture a missile warhead as being, oh, a sticky 
> bomb or a nano swarm or something else that makes physical contact with the 
> target, then "yes". Pick whatever PSB gives the result you want.

I always thought of MT missiles as a large nuke (50 to 100 MT range, afyer 
all the ruskies did detonate a 50 mt bomb once and using the layered warhead 
there is no limit on the size possible). The dammage was due to the effects 
of the explosion itself (did post a liink once to the effect of a nuclear 
detonation in space).

Of course, this raises the effect of a MT missile being able to effect more 
than  one target at once, ut it also allows a bomb pumped x-ray laser 
missilewarhead varient for the MT missile. I would propose some vareint of 
the MKP packs as used by the KV to represent the armour piercing effect of 
the lasers (after all, a x-ray laser with the energy of a nuke behind it 
would definately be counted as having enough energy to go through any armour 
you care to place).

How about this.
MT missile laser warhead.

When gets within 6MU of target, detonates firing a hegehog pattern of x-ray 
lasers in the front arc.

Targeted ship rolls a D6. On a 1, the lasers miss. On 2-5, take a K4 hit 
(including reroll). On a 6, take 2x K4 hits (including rerolls).

Cost=? (no idea).

Somebody care to run average dammage Vs standard MT missiles? I think this 
would be more powerfull than a normal warhead, but how much would determin 
the tweeking required. Or we could keep it this powerful, after all, with 
the old ship design rules, the MT missiles were a lot more deadly than at 
present (the hull DP`s have increased but the dammage of the MT missile 
warhead has not increased).

This has raised another idea for the MT missiles. With the nuke warhead, how 
about allowing dammage to increase the closer to the target the missile is? 
Say at 4MU, 1D6, and going up by 1D6 per MU closer it is?

BIF


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