Adding weapons for vehicle construction

[FallingPhoenix]

Are there stats on spaces that weapons take up for vehicles yet that I missed somewhere or is it just unarmed vehicles for now?

 

[-Daniel-]

Are there stats on spaces that weapons take up for vehicles yet that I missed somewhere or is it just unarmed vehicles for now?

It is yet to come. In the vehicle design chapter it states ...

"Step 3: Weapons and Armour
If you vehicle is going to face combat, now is the time to equip it with armour and weapons. This is detailed in the Weapons and Armour chapter, starting on page XX."

But as of right now, only Armour is listed in the document we have. But...

If you want to play with it, the CRB on page 137 gives us some clue to spaces used....

Weapons: A vehicle may have weapons installed simply by
paying the cost of the weapon which will then consume
Cargo space. Unless a turret is also installed, the weapon
will be upon a fixed mount that can only fire into a
specific arc (see page 134). A vehicle may be mounted
with one weapon for every 10 points of Hull or part of.

Personal scale weapons may be mounted upon a vehicle,
and these will consume no cargo space. However, it will
cost Cr1000 to sufficiently modify a vehicle for each
weapon installed if a turret is not used.

 

[Nerhesi]

Yeah - I'm not sure thats been defined yet. Wasn't it defined somewhere that a space = 0.25 tons? So for example a 2 ton weapon is 8 spaces?

 

[-Daniel-]

Wasn't it defined somewhere that a space = 0.25 tons? So for example a 2 ton weapon is 8 spaces?

"A vehicle can carry 250 kg for every Space that is dedicated to cargo."
Vehicle Design Chapter, 2nd page under Step 6: Cargo Space. :mrgreen:

 

[MongooseMatt]

Yeah - I'm not sure thats been defined yet. Wasn't it defined somewhere that a space = 0.25 tons? So for example a 2 ton weapon is 8 spaces?

That is pretty much what we are going with at the moment.

 

[FallingPhoenix]

Yeah - I'm not sure thats been defined yet. Wasn't it defined somewhere that a space = 0.25 tons? So for example a 2 ton weapon is 8 spaces?

That is pretty much what we are going with at the moment.

Great! Thanks, everyone! If we want to mount spacecraft components on a vehicle, is it also 0.25 displacement tons to a space?

 

[MongooseMatt]

Great! Thanks, everyone! If we want to mount spacecraft components on a vehicle, is it also 0.25 displacement tons to a space?

Say yes for now - may change!

 

[Nerhesi]

Careful - Spaces is weight, and Dtons is displacement, so turrets are heavier. I'm sure this will need revision otherwise turrets would be the only weapons mounted since they're vastly superior