Artillery.

[garhkal]

I think part of the issue is, if you start getting into those longer ranges, its going to make it nigh impossible to COUNTER them unless you also have such artillery.. Heck as it is, unless you have somehow configured your sensors to where you get a few seconds early warning on incoming missiles/artillery shells etc, you won't get any real chance to defend against incoming rounds... which generally means no dodges..
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[Zarn]

I'm reminded of the gungans vs droids sequence.

https://youtu.be/p6R9UkpyvSM?t=165

Gungans use ion spheres launched by atl atl (or the equivalent), have something that looks a lot like medieval siege weaponry and have both shield-shields (shields with shield technology) and shield wells (or whatever you might call it).

Personally, I'm imagining some sort of repulsorlift-assisted cluster ion sphere cannon shell. That'd be some hard rain that'd suck to be targeted by. If the artillery shell could have an airfoil for a body (something like NASA's M2-F1), it might even project over much longer distances.

And I'm a fan of the "competent Stormtroopers" conspiracy theory, so it might be fun to have the visual of a Stormtrooper battalion advancing under the cover of a rolling barrage.

[CRMcNeill]

I've been picturing something more conventional, but upgraded with Star Wars-tech. Modern tube artillery still uses the traditional bag of gun powder rammed into the breech behind the shell, but rail-gun-type artillery is in the works. For a high-tech environment, a mass driver utilizing repulsor-tech is not unreasonable. It's my opinion that the reason missiles and torpedoes are stored internally on starfighters and such is that the internal launcher serves as a first stage, providing additional thrust to the projectile, which thus increases its performance envelope.

A mass-driver howitzer (although I doubt a real-world term like "howitzer" would be in use in the SWU) would provide the initial kick to launch the shell, but the shells can also be equipped with their own booster engines, essentially a cannon fired torpedo or missile.

I'm considering making stats for proton torpedo-sized artillery rockets that can be fired either by ground units (firing them on ballistic paths once their drives burn out) or by starfighters equipped with proton torpedo tubes. That way, starfighters will have a greater variety of direct-fire munitions for attacking surface targets, and the tube artillery will be able to utilize the guided proton torpedos I wrote up for my ASC system. It would allow an artillery cannon to serve as both a bombard platform and SAM launcher...
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[thedemonapostle]

It is my experience that the creators of the D6 WEG RPG knew little to nothing about the specifics of many things used within its own system. Everything from weapon ranges, to blast radii, to air speeds, to 3D combat, and much more


For the discussion of artillery I can only go off of what I have read as my own military experience was limited to only being light infantry. It's been many years since I got out and lots of the specifics of what I was "educated" on has been forgotten. I can look up various things via Google-fu, but I believe that most here can do that on their own. I would ask that you get the ranges right. Please include the blast radius, as artillery isn't in the habit of just lobbing large metal balls at the opposition. Well, not intentionally. This brings up the topic of how you can hit your target dead on and still get a failure to detonate. In regards to sound: I'm reminded of what the mortarmen like to say, 'If you heard the first one, you won't hear the second.' And I recall mortars as being the angrier smaller siblings to artillery. Also, unless you're within the line of sight for artillery, you probably won't have much clue as to the location of the artillery. And you'll probably have to make the distinction between mortars, howitzers, guns, missile artillery, rocket artillery, self-propelled, stationary, towed, etc, etc, etc. And before I forget, the rate of fire might be important as well. From the Self-propelled artillery Wikipedia entry, 'A modern battery of six guns, each firing 43 kg projectiles with a burst firing speed of four rounds per minute, can deliver over a metric tonne of ordnance per minute for up to four minutes.'
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[CRMcNeill]

What would be a good Scatter rule for artillery shells?

Off the top of my head, I'm thinking the scatter distance should increase with range, and should also be increased or decreased by how well the gunnery crew rolled to hit. This would be critical to writing up stats for artillery shells with a working blast radius.
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[garhkal]

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Found this. It's for a different system, but includes a variety of modifiers and a D100 random results table...

EDIT: There are 35 possible results on the D100 table. Wouldn't be too hard to convert to a D6+D6 results table (Roll 1D, then roll D6 on the Subchart indicated by the 1st. Roll).
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[garhkal]

[Zarn]

CRMcNeill, I wonder if it is necessary to implement anything in particular regarding an advancement under a rolling barrage. If I recall correctly, I think there's a mention that if you do an undeclared Dodge, you lose all actions remaining in your round. I can't remember which edition that rule was for, though.

Mechanically speaking, it would simply mean that if someone wants to suddenly get out of a barrage, the Stormies will get at least one round of "free fire" from the rolling barrage as their targets scatter under the unrelenting pummeling.

Personally, I think that's a good enough advantage that the Stormies might try something like that under certain circumstances. Though I would hate the wild die coming up double one.

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