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Monday, June 14, 2021

Laser Barbettes, Bays, and Spinal Mounts

One of the large gaps that I noticed in the MgT2 naval architecture was a complete lack of laser weaponry larger than turrets. While at Tech Levels above 10 there are a wide variety of energy weapons that are more powerful and longer-ranged than lasers, it is still possible to build viable large warships at TL9-10. For such vessels, large lasers of various sorts are likely to be in common use as primary and secondary weaponry. 

The stats for these weapons are built by comparing laser and particle weapons for turrets, and then simply scaling up. In general, beam lasers are 1/2 the power, 1/3 the damage, and 1/8 the list price of a comparable particle weapon. Pulse lasers do twice the damage of beam weapons. All of the rules around beam vs. pulse lasers, bays, and spinal mounts apply as usual without modifications. Barbettes are problematic, as they are not much better than a triple turret in damage, and are much less efficient. 


BEAM LASERS

Weapon     TL Range Power Damage     Cost     Traits

Barbette             10 Medium 8         1D+3     MCr1

Small Bay     10 Medium 15         2D             MCr1.5

Medium Bay     10 Medium 23         3D             MCr5

Large Bay     10 Medium 100         3D             MCr15

Spinal Mount     10 Medium +500 1DD/3     +MCr125


PULSE LASERS

Weapon     TL Range Power Damage     Cost     Traits

Barbette             9         Long 8         3D             MCr2

Small Bay     9         Long 15         4D             MCr3

Medium Bay     9         Long 23         6D             MCr10

Large Bay     9         Long 100         6D             MCr30

Spinal Mount     9         Long +500 2DD/3     +MCr250

3 comments:

Dalton Calford said...

You should submit articles like this to Mongoose to get them to publish them and make them cannon in JTAS.

Fabian said...

Why are Pulse lasers (more complex technically) and apparently better overall a lower tech level the beam lasers?

Helpy the Helping Stick said...

Fabian, I have wondered that myself. You'd need to ask Mongoose, since I just left that as it is in the core rules.

The only thing I can come up with is that sweet DM+4 to hit that they gave to beam lasers.