Re: FT-Weapon idea MDC

Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:49:32AM -0500, laserlight@quixnet.net
wrote:
> 
>>>The spinal mount laser weapons I can use K-guns for, and the 
>>
>>missiles use SMLs, but I am after something different for the MDCs.
>>er...a Kgun *is* a mass driver.
> 
> 
> A K-gun is a light-fast mass driver (or so I've always seen it - the
> lack of a need to track ammo tends to point this way). We don't really

> have rules for a slow-heavy mass driver. It would lose the ability to 
> hit over range even faster than a K-gun (so would probably be used
most
> against stations), have an ammo track similar to that of a missile
> magazine, but do serious damage when it hit.

Tracking ammo would be a nuisance.  More so than salvos in a magazine.

The cost = 4 x mass is odd for a weapon system.  All other weapons are
3xmass cost.

Jon