Re: Was Support Weapons in SGII now DSII

The cheap, easy, lo-tech availability is one advantage to them, the
other is 
the limited AP role, as well a s the fact that if you have someone with 
enough balls to carry one within range, they are not spoofed by ECM or 
vulnerable to ADS fire, though they are still affected by APFC's (and in
my 
house rules by PDS).

As for the GMS/P, sounds like you know enough about both games to do the

translation (I don't play SG), but remember with cost that it needs to
vary 
according to their FireCon quality.

Brian Bilderback

----Original Message Follows----
From: "John M. Atkinson" <john.m.atkinson@erols.com>
Reply-To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: Was Support Weapons in SGII now DSII
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:52:45 -0400

Brian Bilderback wrote:

 > The basic idea behind the SAVR is any unguided weapon that is A: 
reloadable
 > and B: Large enough to be crew serviced, as opposed to the one-man, 
one-shot
 > nature of IAVR's.

Hrm. . . given a universe with fairly small, cheap, smart electronics,
I'm not sure where it would fit since you can put a guidance system on
it and call it a GMS/L.  But for improvised weapons,
primitive/underindustrialized colony world, etc., it might have a role.
The other example off the top of my head is a Bazooka or a light
recoilless rifle.  (name doesn't fit, but the role does.  Think a 57mm
type).

 > I've also been listening to SGII players talk about the GMS/P, and 
wondering
 > how to apply it to DSII.  There's no need for it as a support
element, 
since
 > the GMS/L takes that place.	I suppose what you could do is come up
with
 > ranges and damage and cost for it, and allow a rifle element to be 
equipped
 > with GMS/P's as anti-tank backup instead of with IAVR's for an
increased
 > cost for the element.  Anyone who plays both games, care to comment
on 
that?

I could see doing that.  Say calling GMS/Ps 2 chits, validity as per
IAVRs, affected by APFCs, 12" range, can be jammed like other GMSs.  +10
or 20 points??

John M. Atkinson
Power Corrupts.  Absolute Power. . . is kinda neat.
		-UNK

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