Re: [Traveller_TNE] Stupid Lasers

On 10/9/06, Rupert Boleyn <> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 04:14:02 +0200, you wrote:
> >If you don't mind extrapolation of the battery output modifier I have
> >a convenient table (and the formula behind it) posted at
> >http://user.it.uu.se/~paho9211/trav/weapons/battmods.html
> >
> >Calculate the minimum time required to empty the magazine at the
> >required RoF and find the output modifier for that time using the
> >table/formula. If you are designing a gauss weapon halve this value
> >(since the rules allow them to fire twice).
>
> They do? Where? I always assumed that gauss batteries were double the
> weight they would otherwise be because you didn't have to allow weight
> for the backpack and that their weight therefore included the
> ruggesdization you need in a magazine.

It is a consequence of the ability of an high initiative characters to
act twice in a turn. Since gauss weapons are not rated with absolute
RoFs (e.g. SA3) the way energy weapons are (p 272, 2nd column, 2nd
paragraph) they must be able to fire at twice the "normal rate". This
makes sence since the weapons with RoF 5 in RL fires at around 10
rounds per second.

Patrik Holmström