Flak Cannons

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This post is not to be confused with the thread Flak Turbolasers posted by CRMcNeill. The conversions below are from a sidebar in Rise of the Separatists. I note this because I want to make sure people understand, though the threads sound similar, this thread is very different from the insights posted by CRMNeill and others in the aforementioned thread.

Please, take a look, make comments, and post suggestions.

Flak Cannons
Flak cannons fire large-caliber shells packed with thousands of dangerous tiny objects such as shrapnel, microexplosive pellets, or inert durasteel fletchettes. Flak shells bust as a set distance after firing, and spread their contents in a dense cloud that can tear small, lightly armored airspeeders or starfighters to shreds in an instant.

Like most vehicle and ship mounted weapons, flak cannons come in light, medium, and heavy models. Light flak cannons are typically mounted in surface installations on air-defense walkers, or as point defense systems on gunboats or small capital ships.Medium and heavy models are typically mounted in large surface fortifications or on starships of cruiser size or larger.

Light Flak Cannon
Type: Area suppressor
Skill: Blaster artillery
Scale: Walker
Cost: 6,000
Availability: 2, X
Fire Control: 2D
Atmosphere Range: 300-500/1.5/3 Km
Area of Affect: 0-25/50
Terrain Difficulty: Difficult/Moderate
Damage: 5D/3D

Medium Flak Cannon
Type: Area suppressor
Skill: Blaster artillery
Scale: Starfighter
Cost: 8,000
Availability: 2, X
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-5/15/30
Atmosphere Range: 300-500/1.5/3 Km
Area of Affect: 1/2 space units
Terrain Difficulty: Difficult/Moderate
Damage: 5D/3D

Heavy Flak Cannon
Type: Area suppressor
Skill: Blaster artillery
Scale: Starfighter
Cost: 10,000
Availability: 3, X
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-5/15/30
Atmosphere Range: 300-500/1.5/3 Km
Area of Affect: 1/2/3 space units
Terrain Difficulty: Difficult/Moderate
Damage: 5D/4D/3D

Game Notes: The emplacement selects a 1 space unit target area and makes a skill roll, if the roll fails use the scatter rules for grenades to figure location. Any ship in or flying through the suppressed areas must make a piloting defense roll versus the difficulty of the area effect band. The pilot must make a piloting skill check everytime the ship enters an affected area. The suppression effect lasts until the beginning of the firing emplacements next round.
Source: Rise of the Separatists (p.78), D6 mechanics by +Oliver Queen
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[garhkal]

If multiple flaks go off in the same "SU", does that shift UP the terrain's difficulty?
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[CRMcNeill]

I get that this is in line with how it is written up in the source material, but basic metal shrapnel is, IMO, disgustingly low-tech for a universe as advanced as the SWU. It's be nice if the "shrapnel" was super-hot plasma shards or something similarly high-tech that could be plausibly written as having a chance to penetrate shields...
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[CRMcNeill]

Maybe hype up the high-tech aspects of the shrapnel, like the microexplosive pellets, or fudge a bit on the more mundane shrapnel types, like calling them ion flechettes, or reactive shrapnel that explosively detonates on contact with energy shields, or something similar.
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