AlphaStrike
Mongoose
Are there any rules for flame-thrower type weapons in Traveller?
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Flamers in Traveller?
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AlphaStrike
Mongoose
Bugger - don't have them. Any chance you could summarise? 
alex_greene
Guest
Only to the extent that won't count as saying too much. Certainly fewer details than you'd like.
Flamethrowers fire a compressed stream of burning liquid from a tank of fuel. That burning liquid spreads where it hits, to a 3m radius, and that includes anything that intercepts the spray.
The first round after the stream hits, damage is rolled in full; it is halved each round thereafter until it burns out or is extinguished somehow. Typical damage for a TL 8 flamethrower is 3d6+6 and it has the range table for an assault rifle. It doesn't puncture armour, but rather engulfs the target in flame and burning fluid.
That's as much as you'd need to know if your PCs saw some psychotic with a flamethrower waving the business end in their direction. Other details such as ranges, whether they do autofire, the recoil, the mass of these weapons, availability and cost may well require you to seek out the books.
Flamethrowers fire a compressed stream of burning liquid from a tank of fuel. That burning liquid spreads where it hits, to a 3m radius, and that includes anything that intercepts the spray.
The first round after the stream hits, damage is rolled in full; it is halved each round thereafter until it burns out or is extinguished somehow. Typical damage for a TL 8 flamethrower is 3d6+6 and it has the range table for an assault rifle. It doesn't puncture armour, but rather engulfs the target in flame and burning fluid.
That's as much as you'd need to know if your PCs saw some psychotic with a flamethrower waving the business end in their direction. Other details such as ranges, whether they do autofire, the recoil, the mass of these weapons, availability and cost may well require you to seek out the books.
AlphaStrike
Mongoose
Thanks, Alex. That helps.
alex_greene
Guest
You're welcome. Flamethrowers are underutilised in Traveller. I ought to include more of them in the games I run.
Rikki Tikki Traveller
Cosmic Mongoose
There are many people in the modern world that feel that Flamethrowers are too gruesome to use in combat (kind of like gas) and many groups are trying to get them banned.
If someone with a flamethrower shows up in a combat situation, he/she is going to be one of the prime targets for the enemy. Survivability of people using flamers is pretty low in most realistic combat situations.
If someone with a flamethrower shows up in a combat situation, he/she is going to be one of the prime targets for the enemy. Survivability of people using flamers is pretty low in most realistic combat situations.
Rikki Tikki Traveller
Cosmic Mongoose
Yep, that big tank of highly flammable liquid on his back (that he just used to roast your best buddy)? TARGET!
Harry Turtledove in his "World at War" series about a re-imaged WW2 with the North against the South (US) he follows a platoon of soldiers on the Virginia front where they have a Flamethrower... the flamethrower goes through a lot of hands in a very short period of time.
Harry Turtledove in his "World at War" series about a re-imaged WW2 with the North against the South (US) he follows a platoon of soldiers on the Virginia front where they have a Flamethrower... the flamethrower goes through a lot of hands in a very short period of time.
alex_greene
Guest
DFW said:
Honestly! Check the range tables in Mercenary, if you doubt what they've written!
locarno24 said:
Not according to Book 4: "A pressurised tank of combustible fuel attached to a projecting nozzle, the flamethrower shoots a long stream of burning
liquid and flame at its targets" ... "Due to the lack of penetration available to a flamethrower’s stream, armour values are doubled against flamethrower attacks."
alex_greene
Guest
So as long as the napalm only touches the body parts covered by the armour, and the flames avoid the exposed face, hands and limbs, that's all right then.DFW said:
