Re: Mass Driver Penetration - Was: Death of gearheading?

Part of thread: Mass Driver Penetration - Was: Death of gearheading? · 1 reply ↳ In reply to Re: Mass Driver Penetration - Was: Death of gearheading? — Roger Malmstein Re: Mass Driver Penetration - Was: Death of gearheading? — Rupert Boleyn


Antony Farrell wrote:
> I have to admit I had not noticed a problem with mass driver penetration.
> The couple that I did I didn't see anything outrageous for example a TL8
> 5cm/30 Mass Driver gave me a penetration of 275/265/255/235 firing APFSDSDU
> this seems reasonable to me given that Twilight 2000 v2.2 (this is the one
> that's supposed to be fully compatable ith TNE) gives the M1A2 frontal
> armour of 120 on the turret and 200 on the hull. So this MD gun could knock
> out an M1 at short range and damage it at extreme. Perhaps the problem gets
> much worse with larger calibers? Or later higher velocity MDs?
>
Higher velocity ones mainly. Redesign the weapon at TL15, with maximum
velocity.