Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 22:24:15 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Llaneza Ive been working up a TL12 armory of assorted space weapons for my own amusement and possibly for use in a planetary assault scenario. Designs include a Meson Gun meant for use in a parallel mount a laser barbette a battleship grade heavy laser TL-12 Meson Gun 3500 Mj BR: 3(-1):6-3-2-1 BL: 3(-1):189-95-47-35 Vol 2943 m^3 Mass 3266.4 ton Cost 210.66 MCr Surf 70 m^2 Leng 57.6 m MW 486.0 MW ROF 50 Crew 1 (dont forget to leave access for maintenance crew) This unit has a very short range as is typical for meson guns of this TL. It was designed to fit into a 2000t hull in cylinder configuration as a parallel mount. This wont hurt a battleship, but small warships will be in trouble in close enough. TL-12 Laser Barbette (3 m) Point Defense 225 Mj BR: 8:(-1) 1-1-0-0 BL: 8:(-1) 35-1/35 28-1/9 9-1/3 3-1/1 Vol 72.84 m^3 Mass 122.29 ton Cost 1.6815 MCr Surf 7.07 m^2 MW 31.25 MW Crew 1 ROF 50 This unit is designed for, obviously, anti-missile defense work. It is capable of engaging missiles at 32 hexes, but due to range mods wont be able to hit until at about 20 hexes. TL-12 Heavy Laser Bay (12m) 600 Mj BR: 10:(-2) 10-8-5-3 BL: 10:(-2) 735-1/235 367-1/118 184-1/59 92-1/29 (looks more like a spinal mount dont it?) Vol 318.19 m^3 Mass 701.39 ton Cost 31.8415 MCr SA 113.1 m^2 MW 0 MW Crew 1 ROF 100 This unit has a focal diameter of 12, count em, 12 meters. As a result at TL-12, the effective range is 120 hexes. Woof. Consequently at normal combat ranges, the damage and penetration are intense. This model is accompanied by a fusion reactor that provides the 166.67 MW required by the weapon. The data above is a complete package, I can also provide full stats for this weapon both with and without the reactors. The immense damage and penetration rating are indicative of the imbalance between spaceship weapons. This laser fits into the (TL x 50Mj) limit for lasers discussed previously on the TML, but the wide focal array gives a long efective range and so at the range where fire is possible the discharge energy is multiplied. The meson gun above gives much worse performance and for seven times the price. Admittedly, lasers are a mature technology at TL-12 while meson guns are relatively new.