On 11/09/2007, Troy Guffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DataPacRat wrote:
> > Sample scenario: A sub-flock of, oh, 1,000 Pigeons at the weapon's Max > > range, approaching at their maximum airspeed, Dodging every turn... > > how many will survive to reach the weapon emplacement and blow it to > > smithereens, and how many Pigeons will be destroyed for the investment > > put into this particular anti-Pigeon weapon? > > > My first wild-assed guess: > A TL8 6-barrel 20mm gatling very-long-barreled firing > High-Explosive-Proximity-Fuse automatically aimed by a millimeter-wave > computer-controlled fast-aim mount. [I think you mean 7-barrel electric gatling, 6-barrel only gets you a RoF of 100. :) ] > RoF 120 > KE Dmg: 21d > Range: 1509/6171yds. (4527/18513ft)(0.857/3.5miles) > Acc: +18 > EWt: 180lbs. > SS: 20 > Power: 7.2kW > Cost: $14250 > WPS: 0.6 > VPS: 0.004 > CPS: $1.2 > > HEPF: 1.5d[2d] 0.9lbs. $6 > I'm not sure how that transforms into a 'kill radius'. Neither am I, yet; that's the fun part. :) >From GVB, I get: Weaponry Malf Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D yds Max yds RoF TL 20mm rifled electric gatling gun Ver. Cr 24d 20 16 2,000 7,400 117 8 20mm HEPF ammo - Exp 1d+2 [2d] - 16 2,000 7,400 - 8 The gun, concealed behind armor, is 12.5 cf, 250 lbs, $17,000, 7 kW. 10,000 rounds of ammo is 4,000 lbs, $60,000. Full stabilization, 25 lbs, $2500. Universal Mount (to raise to 90 degrees and keep Pigeons from simply dropping down from above) 125 lbs, $250. We can probably throw in an anti-blast magazine for those rounds: 1,000 lbs, $10000. We'll also need a battery (say, $250), PESA (5 of them (for 360-plus-above coverage, with 2-mile range they add up to 40 lb, $160,000), Gunner Program (Complexity 4, skill 12), and a robot brain (Complexity 4, dedicated, hardened, is 300 lb, $40,000). Which puts us at $290,000, plus whatever chassis, propulsion, and armor we put on it. > A Pigeon will take 58.77seconds to cover the guns range, during which time > the gun can punch out 7052 rounds. For a 1000 member flock, this gun could > award each Pigeon as many as 7 rounds. (Assuming zero time to aim, and > ending up at the mouth of the barrel.) It's been quite a while since I used any of the autofire rules; is that how such things are targeted? (Notes to self: When using pigeons against Big Guns, use /lots/ of cover, and try not to enter its firing arcs until as close as possible. Avoid bunching up the flock to keep individual shells from being able to destroy more than a single Pigeon each. Possibility: Use /big/ flocks to saturate defense capability, eg 10,000 at a time.) Thank you for your time, -- DataPacRat VA3BOS "You shall not accept any information, unless you verify it for yourself. I have given you the hearing, the eyesight, and the brain, and you are responsible for using them." -- Qur'an 17:36, Khalifa translation. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
