RE: [DS2] Vacuum

I did some thinking on this some time ago, based on the way that
atmosphere 
affects wepaons in Striker and Striker II, the best I could come up with

was treating all hits from projectile weapons as if they happened at
close 
range and HEL's as if tehy were one size class bigger.
Using the Striker figures it suggested increasing the range of DFFG's by
a 
factor of 1000, this would probably convert into treating all combat
with 
DFFG's as being close range in a vaccum. This really depends on what
your 
PSB for DFFG's is.
Other thoughs:
Infantry should be more vunerable. CFE and HMT powerplants are
non-starters 
too.
How much does it cost to vaccum proof a turret ring? or in other words I

suspect that vehicles will cost more.
I could not decide what happened to conventional artillery, especially
HEF 
rounds, presumably any shrapnel will travel further and won't slow down
but 
the blast effect will be very restricted.
If you use the ptional abandoned vehicles rule from p45 I can see the
crew 
being less likely to bail out if they can't breath outside.
Should there be a possibility of any "Damaged" result being converted
into 
a knockout due to life support comprimise.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Laserlight [SMTP:laserlight@cwix.com]
Sent:	12 April 1999 04:51
To:	GZG List
Subject:	[DS2] Vacuum

As the Alarishi worlds have no atmosphere, we are curious to know what
modifications should be made to things like weapon ranges in DS2.  I 
already
worked out the GEV's won't work very well...
Alarishi troops have a fondness for Fusion Guns (DFFG).  Since there's
no
atmosphere to scatter the bolt, i presume the range would increase? (Of
course, as John Atkinson points out, it's not like I have any notable
distance to the horizon anyway).

--Chris  DeBoe laserlight@cwix.com
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