Would like FeedBack on these 2 FT systems

They are for a homegrown Minor State: Midgard Herding

1st is Bifrost Gauss Rifle = a K3 Mass is 6 point cost 28

And the Second is: AA Battery from More Thrust Book
What in FT(2.5) should the mass/point cost be

Thanks,

System 1:  Just use the K3 mass/cost as written in FB2.

System 2:  I would use the details for the B-4, but reduce the cost to
2xMass to account for the possible burnout of the gun.

Brendan 'Neath Southern Skies

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> DOC Agren wrote:

> They are for a homegrown Minor State: Midgard Herding

If "28" is a typo for "18", then it is OK (gives almost exactly the same

total cost as the Mass 5/pts 20 standard K3 from FB2).

> And the Second is:

A bit more powerful than the B4; I'd suggest MASS ~10 for cost 3xMass).
(Without the burn-out it'd be nearly as powerful as a B*5*.)

Signing off for a week now,

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> And the Second is:

A bit more powerful than the B4; I'd suggest MASS ~10 for cost 3xMass).
(Without the burn-out it'd be nearly as powerful as a B*5*.)

Signing off for a week now,

Oerjan

Back from the holidays again:

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Good point; above I had assumed that DOC was going to use the FT/FB
60-degree arcs. With a 90-degree fire arcs the AA would be a bit bigger
still (about half an arc's worth of bigger :-/ )

The main reason why the AA is more powerful than the B4 is that it has 18mu
range bands instead of 12mu ones, so the number of beam dice it can fire at
each range are:

Range: B4 AA B5
0-6             4       4       5
6-12            4       4       5
12-18           3       4       4
18-24           3       3       4
24-30           2       3       3
30-36           2       3       3
36-42           1       2       2
42-48           1       2       2
48-54           -       2       1
54-60           -       -       1

IOW, without the burnout the AA is clearly stronger than the B4 but not quite
as powerful as the B5. The burnout reduces the value of the weapon

(46% chance of burning out at range 0-18, 14% at range 18-36 and 3% at
range 36-54), but it is still a pretty powerful long-range weapons and
ships large enough to carry these things tend to have enough DCPs to get

them back in working order relatively quickly so it isn't quite as bad as it
looks.

Doug, did this answer your questions?

> The main reason why the AA is more powerful than the B4 is that it has

*urk* I'd never played with 'em, just figured I'd put them on stations if I
ever put a scenerio together myself. I've probably read the rule section a
dozen times, and STILL missed that. As soon as I had the question in mind, I
should have waited til I got home to look it up.

Did I mention dopey moi?

Thanks, OO!

The_Beast