From Roggenwolf@aol.com Fri Jan 16 22:34:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: from imo16.mx.aol.com (imo16.mx.aol.com [198.81.19.172]) by deliverator.io.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA04227 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 22:34:56 -0600 From: Roggenwolf Message-ID: <74546301.34c034de@aol.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 23:34:35 EST To: Gurpsnet-files@io.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: ST 500 Stone Thrower (TL 3) Medieval Shipbreaker Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part0_885011676_boundary" Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) X-Mailer: Inet_Mail_Out (IMOv11) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_885011676_boundary Content-ID: <0_885011676@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Admittedly this one is an extreme case, but there were some very large seige weapons trundling around the medieval and ancient world.... Stone Thrower (Torsion) TL3 ST 500 Malf: Crit only Dam.: 53d6 crushing 1/2 Dam. Range: 440 yrd. Max. Range: 550 yrd. Acc.:+2 Weight: 50,000 lb. SS: 30 RoF: 1/112 turns Cost: $104,800 Weight per shot: 50 lb. Volume per shot: 1 cf Cost per shot: $25 Shot(ready): 1 Crew: 1 gunner, 12 loaders (13 total) I see this one as mostly a harbor defense weapon. It's a bit too heavy to be used as a mobile siege device, so it may be relegated to fortified positions. If you want to be particularly nasty, consider the fact that it could be used to also throw petards ( large black gunpowder bombs). You also might want to apply the grenade rules if the stones hit a sufficently hard target and shatter- there are some fairly unpleasant descriptions on record of people losing limbs or being impaled by stone shards. -Roggenwolf --part0_885011676_boundary Content-ID: <0_885011676@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline From: Roggenwolf Return-path: To: Gurpsnet-l@io.com Subject: Medieval ShipBreaker (ST 500 Stone Thrower) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:47:57 EST Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit The more at ease I feel with the math the more of these (mostly TL 3 & 4) you are going to see I'm afraid. Admittedly this one is an extreme case, but there were some very large seige weapons trundling around the medieval and ancient world.... Stone Thrower (Torsion) TL3 ST 500 Malf: Crit only Dam.: 53d6 crushing 1/2 Dam. Range: 440 yrd. Max. Range: 550 yrd. Acc.:+2 Weight: 50,000 lb. SS: 30 RoF: 1/113 turns Cost: $104,800 Weight per shot: 50 lb. Volume per shot: 1 cf Cost per shot: $25 Shot(ready): 1 Crew: 1 gunner, 12 loaders (13 total) I see this one as mostly a harbor defense weapon. It's a bit too heavy to be used as a mobile siege device, so it may be relegated to fortified positions. If you want to be particularly nasty, consider the fact that it could be used to also throw petards ( large black gunpowder bombs). You also might want to apply the grenade rules if the stones hit a sufficently hard target and shatter- there are some fairly unpleasant descriptions on record of people losing limbs or being impaled by stone shards. -Roggenwolf --part0_885011676_boundary--