Tenshinai wrote:If they were really unguided, there would be a lot less hits. Of course, if they used guidance that is normal for today, there should be MORE hits instead.
That's why I apply the DF rules (3D6 drop the highest roll) to 'unguided' (this includes such things as NARC or Simi-active/TAG when no trackers are in place or ECM blocks the target area) & DF-LRM/SRM is just a type of ammo, not a separate launcher. 'standard' is adjustable clockwork (fins adjusted for a given arc by the computer just before firing). All the 'heat-seeking' rules published suck, based on over-heat levels. If the target Mech isn't shutting itself down and blowing itself up with it's own over-heat issues, then they can't track it. And, if it is, then why bother wasting expensive missiles on it? I've been working on rules based on current heat uses, which makes more sense - since it would be the heat being expelled through the Heat-Sinks that would be trackable, not the heat still trapped
inside the Mech.
Tenshinai wrote:I´ve just used it to add a tactical layer, running with it that as long as a mech is running active sensors, it´s also running basic ECM, if everyone´s on passive in the area, targeting gets an overall -1 bonus, and missile hit rolls switch to 2d6+6, removing the lowest d6 rolled.
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An interesting take, I've never screwed around much with ECM, just the guardian rules, blocking NARC, etc... I've always considered BT to be low-tech, all that stuff was los-tech along with basic tracking etc. Such as earlier 20mm discussion, the WWII hand operated, crosshair sighted 20mm Oerlikon had maximum range of 4,800yd, that's 144 Hexes. Effective AA Range was 30 hexes!
Tenshinai wrote:Of course, but the point is that the official line is that there´s been hundreds of years worth of standardising down to the most common types of ammo in use.
Think about how that´s been handled in the real world in just the last ONE century...
Standardisations have happened or been enforced and then replaced etc..
The big changes comes with radically new tech, so if you spend a few centuries with limited industrial ability, a fair amount of standardisation is likely(even if not quite to the level the basic game runs it as).
Anyway, not really critical at your choice of modding, flair is always nice.
Well, yes & no, There was standardization in the SLDF, but not necessarily the local State and militia armies. They often received the SLDF cast-offs but more often produced their own local equipment (like the Israeli Merkava) The Periphery never had 'standardized' equipment and relied on their own local (unauthorized) production. What was 'standardized' by the SLDF had various politicians within the SL vying for 'their' district/planet/etc... getting the production. The production of these various components (and the components to build them) were scattered all over the IS so when war broke-out, component 'A' was produced in the DC while component 'B' was produced on the LC, and component 'A/2' which was needed to make component 'A' was made in the CC. so 'Standardization' would have broke down.
In real-world terms the idea is pushed but not maintained. the US/NATO is now using the 'Standard' 12cm rifled Tank gun while the Israeli army is content with the former 105mm rifle and none of the former 'Soviet' states use either of them (as far as I'm aware) they still use soviet weapons (as do their client states) Russia alone uses; 2A46 125 mm gun, D-81T (aka 2A46) 125 mm smoothbore gun and D-10T 100 mm rifled gun
China uses a 100 mm rifled gun and a 125mm SB, not much global 'standardization' there.
It is a huge tactical advantage for your army to be able to utilize enemy ammo while preventing them from using yours. That's why the Russians designed their 7.62mm rifles (SKS/AK-47) with a longer cartridge. Their weapons can feed standard NATO 30cal ammo but the M-60 can't use soviet 7.62mm ammo (it's too long to seat properly in the breach).
That's why I don't see the LC producing ammo that can be captured and used by the DCMS, they would have changed their gun production to make a slightly larger diameter gun whose ammo won't fit in the 'standard' DCMS gun (hence DC 10cm AC-10 and FC 10.5cm AC-11). I went off real-world examples for gun caliber, but am still not finished with assignments, the Periphery is still un-assigned. (I'm thinking of having the TC go off US as well, just split up some with the FWL, but what about the others? I still have Italian and French standards to assign, maybe France/Rim World Republic & Italy/Outworlds Alliance, M-H or M-o-C?) Something that would be very important, as they should have little (or no) energy weapon production. Their variants should be very AC/MG/Missile centric (with Missiles being the DF or 'standard'/clockwork guidance primarily).