thesmiths4
Banded Mongoose
In the vehicle weapons section, page 135, I'd at least mention that heavy weapons may also be mounted on vehicles (that is, along with vehicle scale weapons).
Vehicle Weapons
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Rikki Tikki Traveller
Cosmic Mongoose
Another comment related to weapons. On page 134 you state that Starship grade weapons cannot be mounted on a vehicle. BUT, as has been mentioned before the larger vehicles are about the same tonnage as a small craft starship.
Mobile Planetary Defense Weapons would be starship grade weapons mounted on a moving (gravitic or tracked) platform and would need to be designed with the Vehicle rules, since they don't go into space.
Also Starship grade weapons could be mounted on building (fixed planetary defense installations) such as the famous underground meson Spinal Mount.
SO, I suggest you reword that section on page 134, because in some special instances you CAN mount starship grade weapons on a specially built Vehicle, and I assume those rules will be covered in HG...
Mobile Planetary Defense Weapons would be starship grade weapons mounted on a moving (gravitic or tracked) platform and would need to be designed with the Vehicle rules, since they don't go into space.
Also Starship grade weapons could be mounted on building (fixed planetary defense installations) such as the famous underground meson Spinal Mount.
SO, I suggest you reword that section on page 134, because in some special instances you CAN mount starship grade weapons on a specially built Vehicle, and I assume those rules will be covered in HG...
The vehicle cannon doesn't have a caliber listed, though the auto-cannon does (a range at least). To synch up better with CSC this should have a caliber listed.
The other thing is that a cannon would typically involve a much larger turret than an auto-cannon. So the turret on a tank would require MUCH more hull real estate than a 20mm cannon does (which can be pintle mounted unlike a cannon).
It may be better to only have lighter weapons listed in the CRB and leave the rest to be described and listed in the Vehicles book with the proper rules. And since none of the sample vehicles have an equipped cannon, there's no issue with removing it.
The other thing is that a cannon would typically involve a much larger turret than an auto-cannon. So the turret on a tank would require MUCH more hull real estate than a 20mm cannon does (which can be pintle mounted unlike a cannon).
It may be better to only have lighter weapons listed in the CRB and leave the rest to be described and listed in the Vehicles book with the proper rules. And since none of the sample vehicles have an equipped cannon, there's no issue with removing it.
phavoc" It may be better to only have lighter weapons listed in the CRB and leave the rest to be described and listed in the Vehicles book with the proper rules. And since none of the sample vehicles have an equipped cannon said:
