RE: FT-HET Laers

Sounds to me like someone was buying 20,000 Cr hammers again...
It's not going to be pretty when the "missing" NSL cruisers turn up in
an
action...

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[MKW2] Admiral Peter Rollins - Task Force Zulu-Beta
[Firestorm] Battletech PBeM GM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard and Emily Bell [SMTP:rlbell@sympatico.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 11:24 AM
> 
> Mass: as per class 5 beam
> Arcs: as per class 5 beam
> Range: 36
> Damage: initial 8 dice (as beams, no rerolls), skips first row of
armor.
> Ships
> equipped with armor take an extra 4 dice.  Level one screens halve the
> number of
> dice, level two screens quarter it.  Screens only affect the number of
> dice, not
> the amount of damage determined by each die.
> 
> By unusual happenstance, the weapon was discovered by the NSL.  After
test
> firing
> a non-deployable prototype, they spent a conspicuous amount of effort
> failing to
> make a practical weapon out of it, and enumerated a great many reasons
why
> it
> would never be capable of fleet use.	Although, the funds could have
added
> two Von
> Teghetoff (sp?) SDN's to their battleline, and the project was
hopelessly
> penetrated by foreign intelligence services, they consider the
investment
> quite