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Post by slave2gaming on Jan 31, 2016 10:28:23 GMT
G'day guys,
I asked this on the previous forum, but can't remember the answer... It came up again the other day.
Many vehicles and most Martians have multiple weapons, but can only fire one at a time, why is this?
Do you think this needs changing in the living rulebook?
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Post by Quendil on Jan 31, 2016 10:31:53 GMT
I would have thought for the Human vehicles it is a matter of how many weapons the gunners can operate at once. For the Martians maybe its a power issue.
Games wise it may make vehicles too powerful.
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Post by mikedski on Jan 31, 2016 10:57:39 GMT
The issue is one type of weapon system. For Martians eithers either heat ray or gas or targeter if scout.
For US Army it's using either just only cannons versus using only HMGs which leads to the HMG on the Mark III being a silly hood ornament.
For Brits the HMG on vehicles can be used concurrently per rules clarification by Ernie on the old forum (I remember asking that question in regards to the Cairo BatRep and getting a rare response).
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Post by madmorgan on Jan 31, 2016 11:53:27 GMT
Hmm, I don't remember exceptions for the BEF vehicles. But, then Ernie would do stuff 'on the fly' for given games, especially his lol. In any case, its crew manning for humans and fire controls for martians.
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Post by Burt on Feb 1, 2016 1:35:33 GMT
Overseer tripods had the ability to have multiple weapons and targets. For example, there are two (or maybe three) heat rays. Each can focus on separate targets. However, the heat rays cannot be fired simultaneously with the Sun Gun...too much of a power drain.
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Post by madmorgan on Feb 1, 2016 11:01:03 GMT
Yeah you're right on that but the Overseer is a much larger machine - for that matter the Dominator can all three weapon systems (2 Hev Heatrays & its awesome missle pod), but I attribute both those to their much larger capacity - both are much larger that the standard Martian machines. One wonders if there are more than 1 crew for those?? Commander and two subaltans for the Dominator, and at least 5 or 6 for the Overseer. Just thinking outloud on that one.
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