• Registered: 2005-05-15
  • Posts: 84

Topic: Weapon help

Okay some I am plying around with a B5Ws conversion for my gaming group, I decided to start with EA as the baseline and work from there.

First of I decided to use KEB defense as it sorts the armour problem nicely.

So most of the weapons are not a problem, I have hit a bit of a wall concerning the infamous LPA's.

These are basicly two weapon systems in one ( in this case a medium laser and a medium pulse cannon.)

some I am wondering how to work it.
An idea I have had is to make a weapon with stats:
4+ 12 1/2/1 Ver Pen/Ver RoF/Dual weapon

Duel weapon means you can only use ONE of the other enhancments on the weapon. Thoughts? better ideas?

Thanks in advance.

P.S I'll try get a ship up later today (Hyperion Heavy crusier) for those that want a peak

  • Registered: 2005-03-29
  • Posts: 859

Re: Weapon help

My advice would be either:

a) look at jerryxxv's conversion on the Yahoo! group--you might get an idea or two there

or b) Create the two weapons seperately. Then, add half of the smaller weapon onto the larger weapon, and give them a variable fire mode--either they fire in laser mode or in pulse mode. Might make work easier...

  • From: Denver, CO
  • Registered: 2005-03-27
  • Posts: 3,578

Re: Weapon help

murtalianconfederacy wrote:

or b) Create the two weapons seperately. Then, add half of the smaller weapon onto the larger weapon, and give them a variable fire mode--either they fire in laser mode or in pulse mode. Might make work easier...

This is the solution used in ARES, and it works nicely.

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

mj12games's Website

  • Registered: 2005-03-29
  • Posts: 859

Re: Weapon help

Is it?

I forgot about ARES, to tell you the truth...:D

  • Registered: 2005-04-03
  • Posts: 68

Re: Weapon help

When I was playing around with some B5W => SX conversions, I just took the Medium Laser and Medium Pulse Cannon stats and averaged them out to find a middle ground. I think that I left all of the advantages on the weapon, but I can't remember at this point -- and given that my preferred B5 campaign / playing era is 2200-2240, centered around the Dilgar War era, I never got to anything but Medium Laser armed Nova Dreadnoughts so didn't have to worry smile

-Tyrel

  • From: Denver, CO
  • Registered: 2005-03-27
  • Posts: 3,578

Re: Weapon help

Tyrel Lohr wrote:

When I was playing around with some B5W => SX conversions, I just took the Medium Laser and Medium Pulse Cannon stats and averaged them out to find a middle ground.

The problem I have with using an average is that this would allow someone to come up with a dual-purpose weapon at a discount.

For example, let's say the two weapons standing alone are worth 50 and 20 respectively. Combine them in a dual-purpose weapon, and they are worth 35... if you only ever use the 50-point weapon "mode", you're getting a significant discount.

With the ARES system, the dual-purpose weapon will always cost more than either mode, but still give a discount over having both weapons separately.

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

mj12games's Website