Questions: Submuntions and Scatterguns

Hello All,

I'm a tad confused about some rules concerning Scattergun and Submunitions.
For starters, I dug this up from my copy of the Full Thrust
FAQ...

> Full Thrust FAQ

What's a scatter pack? Is that a Submunition pack or some other system. I
doubt it's a Scattergun because today, when I was reading my copy of More
Thrust I observed something about the Scattergun that I had missed before.

The Scattergun has a 360 degree arc. The direction the symbol points in
doesn't indicate it's fire arc. It's on a turret.

I'm not going to get into "gee, this should be changed" mode yet because I
haven't studied the rules enough to do so and I'm not sure I want to anyway.

The Scattergun has anti-fighter capabilities... I'm assuming that means
it also has anti-missile capabilities as well.  It is afterall a shotgun
spread. Six mass of these could therefore stop six incoming missiles, right?

Opinions, comments... good recipes;)

Pete

A Submunition Pack is from Full Thrust, and is basically a preloaded Rocket
Pod which fires a scatter of unguided rockets at the target (and hence the
scatter pack reference). A direct equivalent would be the
early 50's jet fighters/intercepters which carried unguided rocket packs
to mass fire at enemy bombers.  F-94 Starfires, F-89 Scorpions, some
models of the F-86 Sabre, and an assortment of others.

The Scattergun is from More Thrust, and is a Kr'vak short range "shotgun"
weapon, and by definition are turret mounted, having a 360 degree firing arc.

In message <9702061521.AA17538@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com>
> pcaron%nhqvax.dnet@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com writes:
[...]
> What's a scatter pack? Is that a Submunition pack or some other

It's a submunition pack. Scatterpack is a Dirtside weapon, and the author must
have been confused. Subbies get one arc of fire. This is implicit in the table
of weapon symbols on p30.

Someone has munched the Scattergun and Sub-Munitions systems together...

> David Brewer wrote: