Starship Weapon Design

[atgxtg]

I7ve been working on a system for designing starfighter weapons "from scratch", and am looking for a few designs to test it.

The current limits are:
Starfighter scale
No turbolasers (yet).

What I can handle is:
Fire Control
Damage Code
-optional rule for custom Range Stats
-Optional rule for building twin/double, triple and quad weapons
-optional rule for fixed, swivel, 2-arc, 3-arc, and 4-arc turrets


Anyone want to test this out?

[Naaman]

Okay, wait: you want some home brew examples of starfighter weapons to play test, or want input on how to design the system?

[atgxtg]

[Naaman]

Ah ha. I see. Now, your "triple" weapon set up... when fired, they shoot as one (like a linked weapon), but when damaged, you're SOL... I like it.

Now, was 5 tons just an arbitrary number you threw out there? 5 Tons seems extremely heavy for a starfighter scale weapon to me... maybe my SW knowledge is kinda limited, but 10,000 lbs for a weapon system seems quite large. Each weapon itself would (I'd estimate) weigh about 100 lbs, with another 100-300 lbs of equipment used to hook it up to the spacecraft (turrets, gyrostabilizers, ammo containers, targeting equipment etc). I'd estimate this triple laser cannon would weigh in at under a half ton once it was fully assembled, loaded and mounted on the ship.

Here's a quick contribution:

The Scorpion

This weapon was named for it's ability to effectively paralyze it's targets and cause severe damage at the same time. The weapon is a fire-linked ion cannon and laser cannon that are fired in a staggered pattern: the ion blast hitting first in order to make the target more vulnerable to the trailing laser blast. The targeting computer is some of the most sophisticated technology available to fighter pilots, but the calculations required, along with the recharge time of the weapon itself reduces the fire rate compared to traditional weapons.

Fire Control: 3D
Range: 1/7/15
Fire Rate: 1/2
Damage: 4D+2 ionization/5D+2 energy damage
Cost: 12000 credits
Weight: 300 kg
Notes: The scorpion is a fire-linked "double barreled" weapon that fires an ion blast one millisecond prior to firing it's laser blast. The targeting computer accounts for the trajectory of the target, leading the target if necessary when it fires. If a hit is scored, first roll the ionization damage and determine the results (particularly important if shields are ionized). Then roll the laser's damage.

[Fallon Kell]

How about an "ion sniper"? (Long range, double mounted ion cannon on a swivel mount, 4D fire control?)
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[atgxtg]

[quote="Naaman"]Ah ha. I see. Now, your "triple" weapon set up... when fired, they shoot as one (like a linked weapon), but when damaged, you're SOL... I like it.

Now, was 5 tons just an arbitrary number you threw out there? 5 Tons seems extremely heavy for a starfighter scale weapon to me... maybe my SW knowledge is kinda limited, but 10,000 lbs for a weapon system seems quite large. [/quiote]

The weights, were worked out from the weights given for weapons in D6 and D20. I reverse engineered the data for existing weapons and worked up some numbers that fit the costs and weights given in Galaxy Guide 6: Tramp Freighters, and the D20 Starships of the Galaxy (1E).

So my numbers are (hopefully) compatible with the values given in Tramp Freighters.

A heavy laser cannon (5D) weights 3 tons (according to Galaxy Guide 6), so the triple laser cannon I wrote up gets a great savings in weight, as some of the components (power storage capacitors, fire control computer, etc) are shared amomg all three blasters..

5 tons for a weapon system isn't very much for a cannon.

[atgxtg]

[Fallon Kell]

[thedemonapostle]

http://www.jtgibson.ca/sw/shipgen.htm

http://d6.ironsind.com/ShipGen/shipgen.php

these might help you some, i found them years ago. granted they're for making custom ships but they do have a lot of differing star ship weapons between the 2 of them
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[Naaman]

[Naaman]

[Fallon Kell]

[atgxtg]

[atgxtg]

[Fallon Kell]

Thanks! I may just have to put one of these into use in my next adventure...
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