Re: [HOE] Stupid Junker device...

["Ronald Conner" <marshalron@hotmail.com>]

> Okay. Recently picked up a copy of Junkman... One of my number-crunching
> players has a scan through, comes up with an idea for a device. A kind of
> Rocket Launcher...
>
> Ammo+Rocketman
> Warhead: 1D4 damage. (base size 0.05) Burst radius (60degree arc, +10%),
no
> propellant (base size -50%, no chemical components) giving a total size of
> 0.03 slots.
> Rocket: Range Increment 500. Slots (technically 12x0 (frame size of
> warhead, but I'm assuming minimum of 1 so 12) therefore
> Launcher = Size of rocket +20% = 12x20% = 17.28(18).So frame size 3.
> So what's the point of having a rocket launcher that does 1d4 damage in a
> 60 degree arc burst radius to targets up to 2750 yards away?
>
> Get this. This is the reason why I wanted to give him a ding upside the
> head... Backblast with a range of 30 yards, 4D20 damage.
>
> So... Advice? PLEASE say someone can spot some kind of fatal flaw in the
> maths.... Or should I just slap this guy around the head?
>
> Oh, and what's the TN for Rocketman? Seems to be missing.

From what I see of the ammo rules you can't build a warhead that small.
Espicially not with rocketman, the warhead minium damage calls for at least
a d20 so you'd have a much larger sized weapon than that, the math is flawed
and it won't work as planned.  In order to have 4d20 backblast you have to
first have something that does at least 1d20 damage kind of hard not to.

Ron Conner