Re: [TML] CT Striker Book 3 Hyper-velocty Gun HEAP rounds Rupert Boleyn 17 Jul 2020 14:39 UTC
On 18Jul2020 0209, Thomas RUX wrote: > Morning from WA. all, > > First I want to thank everyone who took the time to reply to my topic. > Next, is my apologies for not keeping up with the discussion. > > Finally, I want to mention that I do no think that MT Referee's Manual > CPR guns and other non-starship weapons used CT Striker Book 3 as part > of their design. > > In CT Striker Book 3 I was able to match the price, volume, and mass > of the example for a medium velocity gun. The ammunition I was able to > match the mass, volume, and cost of example of a CBM round and the > specifications for all of the listed rounds. > > MT Referee's Manual does not have a medium velocity gun so I went with > a TL 9 10 cm low velocity (howitzer) gun. My volume and weight in CT > Striker Book 3 matched what is listed in MT. A CT Striker 10 cm > howitzer's price and ROF is half that of the one in MT. In MT the > vehicle set-up time is 60 seconds while in CT Striker I get 10 turns > or 300 seconds. > > A CT Striker and MT HE round has the same volume, weight, and cost, > unfortunately in CT Striker the TL penetration is 18 while the > penetration in MT is 20. The reason for the penetration difference is > that in CT Striker the bore sizes are 10, 11, 12 and counts down one > for each two levels above TL 6. MT's bore size is 10, 12, 14 and > counts down one for each two levels above TL 5. > > I'm checking to see if TNE FF&S was used instead. TNE's FF&S post-dates MT by some years, and uses a whole different design sequence for CPR guns (and a different scale for armour), so any match is most likely coincidental. -- Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>