• Registered: 2006-01-17
  • Posts: 359

Topic: Firing Arcs

Just a simple question....
Is there any way to give a short range weapon the same firing arc as a spinal mount? Not looking for the range, but I was designing a ship with a Plasma Bombard in the front, and the only way to do it was to give it the firing arcs AB. However, the weapon itself was a fixed mount within the history of the race. During the game, I was noting that I had a number of shots possible that were at the extremes of the outside of firing arcs A and B, but it just didn't feel right.....

Is there a way to mount a forward or aft weapon with a restricted arc?

John

  • Registered: 2005-03-30
  • Posts: 272

Re: Firing Arcs

Pay the cost of a single (60 degree) arc weapon, and declare it to be a front centerline weapon covering the 11-1 o'clock arc.  The ship designer won't support arc functions outside of ABCDEF, but past discussion about firing arcs pretty much concluded that using clockface notation to denote arc is the way to go.  It really doesn't affect play balance to use non-standard arcs, as long as your weapons are paying for the actual degrees of coverage.

I suppose you could even do arcs in 30 degree increments instead of 60 (at half the SU cost) if you wanted to maximize your options, but that might be more effort than it's worth.

Rich

  • Registered: 2005-03-27
  • Posts: 811

Re: Firing Arcs

I'd say go for the 30 degree arcs.  That makes it easy, and you can use them on any hex row that way.  It's a natural extension in my opinion of the current arcs of fire.

However, It is not a straight halving of the SU, I don't think.

  • Registered: 2006-01-17
  • Posts: 359

Re: Firing Arcs

I can go with the single arc, and that works....
It just didn't feel right to have a "foward fixed" weapon firing at a target over on the AC line.

I'll run it by the rest of my group and see if they agree with that coverage.

Thanks Much
John