RE: KV Vehicle Design Philosophy

Several people have gone the route of making KV weapons take up space 1 
level smaller than their class, specifically for HKP's and MDC's.  The 
problem is, this effectively limits the KV to 4 classes in these
weapons.  
Thatr's because class 1 and class 2 weapons would be the same suize, so
why 
bother ever mounting a class 1?  Instead, I suggest that the DS II K
Guns 
draw 1 extra damage chit. Thus, a class 1 K Gun would draw 2 chits, a
Class 
2 would draw 3, etc...	 Admittedly, this means a class 5 K Gun would
draw 6 
chits. As a human player, this does scare several things out of me, 
including excrement AND theological realms of punishment.  However, it
seems 
to fit the description of the KV.  Just make sure you increase their
COST by 
one weapons class as well.

As for making all other weapons 1 size larger  than their damage, came
up 
with an alternative. Instead of adding 1 to the weapons class before 
calculating fit, increase the modifiers for these weapons to x4 for
turrets, 
and x3 for fixed arc and secondary weapons.  I did the math on this, it 
would give class 1 and 2 weapons less of a disadvantage than your idea,
make 
class 3 about the same as yours, and make class 4 and 5 weapons much
more 
disadvantaged.	In game terms, class 1 and 2's would be just a bit
larger 
than their human counterparts, while the class 3-5 weapons would be 
grotesquely bulky - which seems fitting for a technology with which the
KV 
are not yet familiar.

Here's a question that all this disparity (both ways) in weapons tech
brings 
up:  HOw will people deal with campaigns and the ability of both sides
to 
reverse-engineer each others' tech from captured units?

Brian B

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Bell, Brian K" <Brian_Bell@dscc.dla.mil>
Reply-To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
To: "'gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU'" <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: RE: KV Vehicle Design Philosophy
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 07:48:06 -0400

Weapons:
I would agree that, KV should have a different size/cost for weapons. KV
seem to have placed all thier eggs in one basket for weapons. So:
HKP, MDC: -1 size for fit (min. 1, max. 5)
APSW: Normal
All Other weapons: +1 size for fit

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