The rules don't appear to cover reloading the weapon mounts. I don't know if there are supposed to be special rules for them or not.
Basically I want to be able to build super giant mecha with weapons with really large ammo capacity. Or something smaller that can at least tap into a bot's power supply or internal ammo storage. I think it would be silly if a super giant mecha had to stop to reload weapons after a few rounds of combat. I want to be able to make something like the Dreadnought from X-Risks, which is a synthmorph with a much larger ammo capacity.
I'm wondering if anyone else has had to deal with problems like this before. Any tips will be welcome.
Edit: Made this post much less wordy.
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Reloading weapon mounts
Wed, 2016-07-06 17:51
#1
DivineWrath
Reloading weapon mounts
Wed, 2016-07-06 19:52
#2
ORCACommander
I think for a minimum you are
I think for a minimum you are going ot have make a modified smart magazine. However beware you do have a volume limit to work with and that internal munitions storage is much more limited than external weapon racking or a field bag
Wed, 2016-07-06 21:20
#3
SquireNed
I mean, a functional if
I mean, a functional if simple feed system shouldn't be hard for a synthmorph, if you consider the sheer complexity of most morphs anyway.
Now I kinda want to have a synthmorph with an internal ammunition reserve and come up with a convoluted way for there to be an ammunition explosion, but I have been on a Battletech kick lately.
Wed, 2016-07-06 21:54
#4
GreyBrother
SquireNed wrote:Now I kinda
If the Synth gets wounded, some ammo cooks off and the shrapnel of the exploding limb does Flechette damage to surrounding people?
Thu, 2016-07-07 12:33
#5
MrWigggles
I wouldnt do special rules. I
I wouldnt do special rules. I would make it flavor text for crit shots on the synth.
Thu, 2016-07-07 19:15
#6
Trappedinwikipedia
You could also handle it with
You could also handle it with the optional special effects for called shots. Have the magazine go off like a frag minigrenade or less with a successful wounding called shot to it.
Sun, 2016-07-10 19:14
#7
DivineWrath
So not much for making
So not much for making reloading weapon mounts easier or giving them extra ammo capacity? Beyond what you can do for other unmounted weapons that is.
Some other questions then:
Can a morph without arms and hands reload their weapons? I'm thinking no since arms and hands are required for reloading normal weapons.
Can a medium morph mount a two handed weapon on their arm? So they can fire it using one arm? I'm trying to go for the look where a morph has a flame thrower on one arm but they don't come in one handed sizes.
Sun, 2016-07-10 21:45
#8
ORCACommander
such a weapon would have to
such a weapon would have to completely replace the arm at which point you might as well call it a canon.
actually you could do it with a few different ways, ammo belts, feed tubes, conveyors, hell in micro g you could have magazines with compact ion thrusters or rcs depending on scale.
Mon, 2016-07-11 10:57
#9
R.O.S.S.-128
Reloading is for people with hands
Honestly, I would generally consider mounted weapons to be either belt-fed or using an internal auto-loader in the case of weapons where belt feeding wouldn't make sense (like a rocket launcher or a weapon with a revolver-style cassette). For the sake of convenience, the internal loader would probably take the same amount of time to load a new missile/shell/cassette as a person and thus would have no mechanical difference. A belt-fed weapon on the other hand wouldn't have to reload at all unless it can feed from more than one source (in which case switching feeds would take the same amount of time as reloading).
This is because mounted weapons are usually on things that don't have hands to manipulate a magazine in the first place (like drones and vehicles). It's also because the entire point of a magazine is to allow a weapon to be portable: if you want to be able to pick up and drop a weapon, it helps if you can pick up and drop the ammo with it. If the weapon is bolted onto you anyway, there's no reason not to also have a huge box of ammo bolted to you too.
Of course, using this interpretation does mean that mounted weapons would completely bypass 90% of magazine restrictions.
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