Fyrstorm
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Yes, that's what Defense Augs are for.
Tacit Ronin vs. The World
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LostDeviljho
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I was actually gonna suggest setting up some hardpoints on the DP and equipping them with longspears next turn.
aledeth
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We already can, if we research a Wall-mountable turret version of the Heimdal's railgun.
[X] Arty and Infantry to the walls.
[X] Jagdhund, Heimdal, and the tank units move to engage Matilda. Jadghund and Heimdal set up position twenty units from the shoreline two units apart. The tanks set up screening position five units ahead of them, spaced two units apart.
[X] Tacit Ronin takes the Air Force and Navy out to engage Rouge by sea. Try to approach from the flank. Choppers carry torpedoes.
Minor addendum to have the choppers load torpedoes.
@Fyrstorm Have the price reductions to the standalone MK III reactor also contributed to making the full Mk III Jaeger frame cheaper to buy?
Bigger. We want bigger for the walls. There's no need to make them mobile, and size means range.
LostDeviljho
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[X] Arty and Infantry to the walls.
[X] Jagdhund, Heimdal, and the tank units move to engage Matilda. Jadghund and Heimdal set up position twenty units from the shoreline two units apart. The tanks set up screening position five units ahead of them, spaced two units apart.
[X] Tacit Ronin takes the Air Force and Navy out to engage Rouge by sea. Try to approach from the flank. Choppers carry torpedoes.
[X] Jagdhund, Heimdal, and the tank units move to engage Matilda. Jadghund and Heimdal set up position twenty units from the shoreline two units apart. The tanks set up screening position five units ahead of them, spaced two units apart.
[X] Tacit Ronin takes the Air Force and Navy out to engage Rouge by sea. Try to approach from the flank. Choppers carry torpedoes.
Fyrstorm
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...Yes. Somewhat.
aledeth
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I think by dedicating a full action to getting the Longspears on a turret mount, the researchers will take advantage of the more stable mounting platform and get some kind of stat buff over the Heimdal version. At least if we get a decent roll on it.
What's the mass of a Heimdal?
Fyrstorm
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Lots. The gun itself is about the size of a Type-90 Tank.
150 tons? 1,500 tons?
Fyrstorm
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...50.3 Tons? Okay then, apparently Longspears mass in at just above 50 tons.
LostDeviljho
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Just the gun?
Not unreasonable. A 280mm M65 Atomic Cannon massed 83.3 tons for the gun and carriage.
Fyrstorm
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That's the gun itself. The reactor, the mobile armour that transports it, everything else is not included. The Railgun itself weighs around 50.3 tons. It's a big fucking gun (keep in mind the damage profiles of most conventional weapons are representative of barrages of fire-- this is a single shot).
LostDeviljho
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I know. I was making sure my understanding was clear.
The funny thing is... it's still lighter than the gun I want to build at some point.
A 16"/50 Mk 7? Please say a 16"/50 Mk 7!
LostDeviljho
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I wanna replicate the largest (rifled) gun ever fired.
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Only if we put it on treads and do what Hitler never could!
LostDeviljho
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Use it as a taxi-cab for our giant robot?
Fyrstorm
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See Romeo Blue vs The World. It's not that impressive-- you need a lot of kick behind a gun to hurt a kaiju; it's not just shell size that counts.
Exactamundo!
LostDeviljho
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Did they actually do that? Build a Gustav, I mean.
aledeth
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I... don't remember a Schwerer Gustav clone in Romeo Blue... but we did research something like that in HB Quest before it went on hiatus.
800mm Artillery Emplacement
3500 Resources
- Can not be deployed outside of a city. Does not benefit from city fortifications
- Can not be moved once deployed
- 800mm "Iron Bitch" Howitzer: 1d10 Impact damage. +8 damage. Range 20, Hits on 7s. Will Not Cauterise Wounds,
Can fire indirectly, increasing its range to 120 units. Indirect fire is at -2 to hit.
The gun can only be fired every second turn
As you can see, the gun is incredibly innacurate if we want to shoot it at anything beyond 'too damn close', but packs an absurd punch when it connects.
Fyrstorm
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Yes, but that was actually intended to kill kaiju. Unlike the original gun, represented here from RB Quest.
As you can see, there's a big difference between a modern engineered BFG and a sixty-year-old not so good BFG.
People do realize that there's only so many actions we have for all the 'next turn' things they say they want to do, right? On top of the 'essentials', actions that people wanted last turn but couldn't fit in, and followups to actions we did this turn that need further investment?