Re: [Traveller_TNE] Stupid Lasers

--- Gerry Harris <> wrote:

> I have tried for the past two days to recreate the lasers that came in
> the FF&S supplement and I cannot do it. I can't figure out how the
> damned backpacks are so light. The 19.5 kg 50-shot backpack for the
> TL8 laser carbine comes out too big and too costly by a factor of 10,
> and the weapon is too light by a factor of about 3. I've checked and
> double checked all the damned calculations, and I cannot get them any
> closer.
>
> This is one reason I've always hated laser design in FF&S. It's too
> damned complicated -- more so than I think is required by simple game
> mechanics.
>
> Aaaargh!
>
>
>
The TL-8 Laser Carbine is incorrectly designed, probably because someone used a spreadsheet with
the wrong assumptions regarding batteries. AFAIK these are the correct values:

FA Diameter: 10 cm
Weapon Length: 68.3 cm
Pulse Discharge Energy: 0.01 MJ (Input Energy: 0.04 MJ, Power: 0.008 MW)
Weapon Specifications: 4.209 kg, Cr 1978
Power Pack Specifications: 50 Shots, 29.854 kg, Cr 115
Features: Laser Sight, Optic Sight, Ruggedised Body (Melee Standard....ok, so maybe I did a little
reinterpreting here, but then again this is supposed to be a FO weapon, and that seems to require
a lot of crawling through rock and bush)

One little thing to note here: FF&S creates a little too much confusion in the table for focal
array performance on page 127. It gives the impression that a grav focused laser is possible at TL
8 and 9, when in fact this option does not become available until TL-10. If you're trying to
recreate the TL-8 and 9 lasers in RCEG, you have to use the NON-Gravitic laser performance on page
126 to obtain the proper power requirement and use a non-grav focal array.

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