RE: Spinal Mounts

Weapon: Mass		Cost
Spinal Mount	20% of ship	massX3

A spinal mount takes 20% of the total mass of the ship.  For example a
spinal 
mount on a mass 100 ship is 20 mass and costs 60 points (20x3). Damage
done is 
as for standard beams with 1 die rolled for every 2 mass of the weapon.

Michael Brown
-----Original Message-----
From:	Sean Bayan Schoonmaker [SMTP:schoon@aimnet.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, February 24, 1999 5:04 AM
To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject:	Re: Spinal Mounts

>I played FT last night, and EFSB a couple of weeks ago, which got me
thinking
>about Spinal mounts ala Traveller.  I am starting to think along the
lines of
>the Beam weapons in EFSB, or high number FB Beam batteries.  My first
take is
>20% of total mass and cost 3xMass used and only allowed the Front arc..
>Effect
>is 1 die per mass as Beams or ?  My goal is to make them cost effective
>only on
>the larger ships i.e. mass 100+.

Michael,

I'm not sure I understand what you're doing with the MASS and POINT COST
numbers. Perhaps you might put it a different way so I can understand it
better.

Schoon