Re: [FT] Weapons Cost for firing every other turn

Yes, but when designing up a rules base addition why limit something to 
what invariably is used now. Invariably ships DON'T travel faster that 
the speed of light - but most FT ships are equipped with FTL drives. 
Cannot we spread our imagination.

The base FT rules are flexible in that a Beam Weapon can be used to 
represent any type of weapon that loses strength with range and is 
reduced by shields. A single battery could represent dozens of arrays - 
or simply a single weapon port.

Given how fungible the base rules are designed each turn is not a given-

hard-set-in-stone amount of time, instead things are fungible. Can 
anyone seriously say that no gunner *EVER* fired their main gun at an 
enemy unit (say a tank) - then within the time frame alloted to the FT 
system turn - fired their COAX MG at some nearby supporting infantry?

This is different from the re-design of FT to different universes - like

the HH or SW variants.

Why should the design be so rigid?

Chip
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Just because everyone else thinks the same thing doesn't make it right -

just makes it group-think.

Oerjan Ariander wrote:
> Chip wrote:
> 
>> The reason I used the COAX design was it was coupling the same gunner

>> with two very different weapons. As an example a turret could contain

>> a Class-3 and a Class-1 Beam weapon. The reason I limited it to the 
>> same arc was to account for the fact that the beam weapon is more
than 
>> likely not really coaxially mounted, but in fact each weapon can only

>> target within the same arc at the same time.
> 
> 
> And the point pretty much everyone else was making is that two weapons

> mounted in the same turret almost invariably DON'T fire at different 
> targets at the same time - they're either used against different
targets 
> at *different* times (eg. the coax MG on an MBT), or against the
*same* 
> target at the same time (eg. wet-navy battleship multi-gun turrets).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Oerjan
> oerjan.ariander@telia.com
> 
> "Life is like a sewer.
>  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
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> 
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