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Sswordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.Hmm, I had assumed it was thermal. If it is gravitic then you need a densitometer. That means TL 12 sensors at MCr4.3 minimum and the...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.But you recognise I hope that not every sentence on a structured argument needs to be self contained because otherwise we will reach...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.If you are going to take every statement I make out of context and agree in one place but then ignore that in the next line of your...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.Radiators. But not necessarily in all directions. I am not sure what difference being on earth will make. Reflectors get hot on earth...
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SRead it more closely. It can either change the characteristics or reduce emissions. "Emission Masking mode imposes DM-2 on attempts to...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.That is changing the characteristics of emissions rather than reducing them. That might be good for pretending to be another type of...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.We are however talking about Traveller rules (which should be based on reality but that is not guaranteed). Generally the things we see...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.I didn't say it was right :) My feeling is that you should be able to spot a buffered asteroid ship in an asteroid field, but that...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.Because HG2022 p77 says you do. "Note that attempting to locate a ship with this level of accuracy requires the use of active sensors."...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.I think the key aspect is that initial detection requires an active sensor sweep. The logic seems to be that until your RADAR etc has...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.To be honest when I read Concealed M-Drive I thought it meant the drives themselves were visually concealed (i.e. you could have a...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.Do these actually prevent the M-Drive emissions from being detected? As a ship using its m-Drive proves DM+1 to detection per Thrust...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.That is true. You couldn't use the m-drive though (that has its own signature), but definitely you could run ships systems without using...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.The rules don't say we can detect a miss or anything specific, it just has a throw away comment about sensor operators being able to...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.In movies we see the beams because of the "rule of cool" and because we need to tell the audience who is shooting. We see visible laser...
