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Re: Halo - Covenant Spaceship Firepower Calcs
00:29 19-Oct-09
[Replies: 510, Views: 15743]
By: higbvuyb
post4369171] So then the UNSC and its super alloys and insane coilgun tech but can't even get a bunker buster deeper than our current abilities? Got that.. I used the buried nuke case because we happened to be talking about advanced nuclear bunker buster and although the nuke of our Reach-relevant case not be buried as deep would still do a better job than merely detonated on the surface
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Re: Talk to me about: Solaris 'mechs
21:13 30-Aug-09
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By: jymset
msg1349007] CPR-HD-003 Copperhead : On the low end as far as speed or armor goes this thing makes up for that through sheer firepower easily able to take other light 'mechs apart in no time and heavier designs will want to keep an eye on it lest it wander into their vulnerable arcs and get.. The light armor is balanced out by the fact that what armor there is is reflective protecting it from the energy weapons that are most often a light 'mech's primary armament.. Twin LRM-10s are decent ranged firepower the LPL is a good close-in gun while the claw and M-Pods are there for pointblank fighting
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Re: Indian Army News & Discussions
01:50 6-Sep-09
[Replies: 303, Views: 31737]
By: aanshu001
This restriction will lead to much greater emphasis being placed on firepower to achieve the laid down military aim.. Hence it is imperative that artillery modernisation is undertaken with alacrity so as to generate firepower asymmetries on the future battlefield
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Re: On Lensman-verse Aliens (From PSW)
21:56 23-Aug-09
[Replies: 67, Views: 1480]
By: Darth Hoth
So why should we assume the Lens Children are?) I conceded the firepower argument in face of the evidence; this question was about how suspension of disbelief applies to prose novels (as opposed to visual media) in general..tons) it seems unlikely that we're talking gigatons/second of firepower. Especially since if we assume he's capable of oh 20 kilos of iron in 10 seconds (which could be a fairly hefty load to perofrm in a sustained feat even for a healthy guy) he'd need to load the thing some he'd need to be steadily loading the thing for
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Re: A Victorian Age (BT AU)
19:40 6-Sep-09
[Replies: 519, Views: 26194]
By: drakensis
Black Pearl Base Sudeten Tamar March Lyran Commonwealth 12 July 3050 We noticed fairly early that the Clans BattleMechs are significantly more advanced than those we field Victoria briefed the gathered officers.. Their heavy and medium combatants can typically operate at least thirty percent faster than ours again without any loss in firepower. Their assault Mechs can carry at least one more major weapon system than our equivalent designs and can fire all of them without suffering crippling heat build ups.. How would you compare its firepower to that of let s say an Awesome ? Yes yes Byran waved the point off
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Re: A Victorian Age (BT AU)
19:37 6-Sep-09
[Replies: 50, Views: 3163]
By: drakensis
Black Pearl Base Sudeten Tamar March Lyran Commonwealth 12 July 3050 We noticed fairly early that the Clans BattleMechs are significantly more advanced than those we field Victoria briefed the gathered officers.. Their heavy and medium combatants can typically operate at least thirty percent faster than ours again without any loss in firepower. Their assault Mechs can carry at least one more major weapon system than our equivalent designs and can fire all of them without suffering crippling heat build ups.. How would you compare its firepower to that of let s say an Awesome ? Yes yes Byran waved the point off
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Re: A Victorian Age (BT AU)
07:30 4-Sep-09
[Replies: 50, Views: 3163]
By: drakensis
We re not going to make it into the caves before they catch us Galen reported grimly as they entered the Rift.. By sheer chance a single Loki was facing the front of the position and took the brunt of the firepower. Victoria and the pair of Hunchback s flanking her fired everything they had into the Mech at pointblank range.. They didn t have enough firepower to bring the heavy Mech down as quickly this time however and one of the Hunchback s Ramsay s she thought - was backlit for a moment as a PPC from one of the distant Thor s caught it squarely in the back
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'Mech of the Week: HGN-732 -732b -733 -734 -736 -738 IIC Highlander
15:23 2-Oct-09
[Replies: 21, Views: 439]
By: Moonsword
HGN-732 -733 -734 -736 -738 and IIC Highlander Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. I'm going to put some weight on this time and move up to the assault 'Mechs with a venerable classic 'Mech one of the oldest in the game outside the Unseen and their companions in TRO3025 the Highlander . ..t bother trying to escape security locked the doors after you came in especially the ones for your box Waldorf.) I'll cover the variants in historical order for the universe rather than game history so the oldest and newest will go in back-to-back..Technologies to menace people with no less than three of what is perhaps the apex of balance between range firepower and ammo efficiency of heavy ballistic weapons. At the time it was only 'Mech with such a weapon able to do so from beyond 180 meters with any real reliability and hits with fully 75% of the fury of the class 20 autocannon at ranges that would.. The impact of that sort of firepower on the games of that time must have been like Zeus striding out with his thunderbolts and as the first Gauss 'Mech in the game's history it set the standard for ammunition with the now-common two tons and the good news doesn't stop with
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Re: An entry with a Bang! - A BT roundrobin II
03:22 28-Aug-09
[Replies: 19076, Views: 770574]
By: bluepencil
Okay... I've been following this thread for a while now and it's been impressive- including the bickering.. The mistake would be in trying to make it a medium/heavy combat-oriented machine .. The Veritech Variable Geometry fighter weigh around light to medium and pack most of their firepower in Earth's excellent missiles.. The Gundam for a sixty-ton machine is rather anemic in firepower and focused on close combat (even leaving aside that Mega Particle Beams apparently act like mini-Hellbores)
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Re: An entry with a Bang! - A BT roundrobin II
03:27 28-Aug-09
[Replies: 19076, Views: 770574]
By: bluepencil
we Moving on... actually the GM is not really all that bad of a design.. Contrary to expectations recoil is not that much of a problem; by the simple expedient of putting one leg back and leaning forward shock travels down the length of the mech and into the ground; bending the front knee to absorb the recoil.. The crude blocky Atlas is still popular for so encapsulating brute firepower and resilience.. It's meant to hit the Golden Mean between speed firepower and armor protection- like the Uziel Shadowcat and Bushwacker attempt to do; and what makes them so cost-effective for their tonnage
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Re: An entry with a Bang! - A BT roundrobin II
11:28 3-Sep-09
[Replies: 19076, Views: 770574]
By: Posbi
The Periphery Planet Antallos Port Krin July 16 3021 Gusts of wind from the nearby watefront blew swaths of dust across the ferro-concrete landing pad of Port Krin's space port facility while a group of men descended from the ramp of a recently landed DropShip
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Re: Star Trek vs
04:53 19-Aug-09
[Replies: 57, Views: 1015]
By: Mith
post4243007] Next time please use the search funtion before you post something like this. Seriously. What is wrong with the thread? When was the last ST vs..instead just decide to plant walkers with tank level firepower to fire at the warship's unshielded backside.. Quote: firepower No they haven't
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Re: Bad design in Star Wars
18:48 21-Sep-09
[Replies: 395, Views: 11015]
By: fractalsponge1
Coruscant and the Core Worlds describes AZHAMMERCOM s AOR as a wedge encompassing about a third of a circle and hugging the Deep Core to the southeast of Coruscant..ISDs which is the firepower equivalent of 20 Executors..Hammer is expected to be able to function to police and potentially overwhelm a significant chunk of that level of firepower to say nothing of whatever firepower is at the disposal of the wealthy member states of the Empire in that region? Against that level of force is an Azure Hammer of 120?x+57xISDs even significant? Also is it not specifically stated that a substantial
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Re: Bad design in Star Wars
15:34 22-Sep-09
[Replies: 395, Views: 11015]
By: Thanas
Heck they have served as flagships of the Empire both under Thrawn and under subsequent leaders.. To argue that the Chimaera was not a capital ship is IMO arguing against the vast majority of evidence.. The DSII was supposed to provide the main firepower there
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Re: Hunted Tribes - A BT/nBSG Crossover
21:25 3-Sep-09
[Replies: 290, Views: 11263]
By: Hotpoint
All the firepower in the galaxy was next to useless if the man at the controls was an exhausted wreck.. The ship itself was added to the Star League Navy Rolls as the SLS Pheidippides and was utilised as a long-range scout by Clan Wolverine instead being in fact the third Comstar Explorer Corps vessel to get impounded by the Star League in Exile though the.. Not only did it mount extra firepower to defend itself in the back of beyond it carried enough fuel and supplies to operate for nearly two years without re-supply and it mounted Lithium-Fusion batteries normally only found on warships that meant it could perform two jumps in quick succession
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Re: Hunted Tribes - A BT/nBSG Crossover
19:14 12-Sep-09
[Replies: 290, Views: 11263]
By: Hotpoint
The Naval Lasers from the Bismark don t have the firepower of the guns from Zug but Pegasus already has a decent forward battery anyway they ll just give her the ability to reach out further and hit even harder up close the Admiral continued.. Eight Heavy NPPC's would give Galactica a lot more firepower but still leaves the Wolverine Flgship with a very creditable forty of them
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Ute (Clan Goliath Scorpion Light OmniFighter)
14:08 27-Aug-09
[Replies: 9, Views: 169]
By: master arminas
That bald statement combined with the Clan tendacy to use smaller than average fuel tanks and carry far more guns than they could possibly use did disturb the Cobra Khans enough for them to listen to the entire presentation.. Configuration A carries the least amount of raw firepower; ironically it also features the greatest range. But where other configurations exceed it in total damage output the Ute A shines in its ability to deliver a concentrated punch to one section of armor. The sole weapon of this model is an Extended.. Perfectly heat balanced the Ute C trades-off less short-range firepower for a greater medium-range punch
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WarShip of the....Something (8/23/09) - the Samarkand Class Carrier
00:01 24-Aug-09
[Replies: 108, Views: 1776]
By: GiovanniBlasini
War because as we know military spending is always a great economy booster...well at least until the spending stops. Of course in the Draconis Combine that's hardly an issue because military spending never stops! So yay? Anyway Hehiro's big plans needed ships sooner than later so when he first came up with the idea and called.. The Block I then can produce 24 capital points on a combined broadside and 19 points nose or aft with sufficient heat sinks to fire up to five arcs if you choose carefully. That's not astounding but it does edge out the contemporary Vincent and earlier Vigilant . Also edging it out is armor with the Block I carrying.. In essence then the Samarkand could function on its own as a relatively swift agile and durable corvette with a fairly average array of firepower which for the most part didn't require much in the way of ammunition. Placement of the naval lasers aft meant that the Samarkand when supporting the Dragon's glorious ground forces could hover above a fixed position in orbit use her drive.. But those weren't the only changes: firepower's gone up too. First the capital guns were improved with the nose now carrying twin medium NPPCs and twin NL35s. The fore-quarter NACs have been upgraded to NAC/20s while the broadsides now mount a single heavy NPPC replacing the light
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Northern Exposure
00:16 29-Aug-09
[Replies: 4, Views: 277]
By: taimikhan
There’s a lot of work being done to upgrade resurface and widen the highway which means there’s a lot of disruption.. Currently therefore it would be very difficult to move a large amount of men and material around the region.. ISBN 0-19-547334-5 – which I strongly recommend you all rush out and buy right now) the Indians claimed that the Pakistan Army moved ballistic missiles into the Deosai Plains High Altitude National Park during the Kargil crisis in 1999. Having been there.. So how can Pakistan’s firepower transport and logistics capabilities be improved then? I’ve already mentioned that road links are being upgraded to make them negotiable in all weathers.. Every indirect fire support weapon is therefore currently towed from the M-198 155mm downwards to the large calibre mortars but similar firepower if not greater could be delivered in an 8x8 vehicle
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Re: STAR WARS: A Galaxy Divided IC
19:01 26-Sep-09
[Replies: 289, Views: 10476]
By: Thanas
Only to be met with the second half of the Ord Cantrell fleet as it microjumped into the system.. But they were heavily outmatched by the Imperial flotilla facing them which focused about four times as much firepower on them than the Banjeer fleet could respond with.. Then all three capital ships focused their firepower on The Boss
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Re: STAR WARS: A Galaxy Divided IC
09:17 8-Sep-09
[Replies: 289, Views: 10476]
By: Thanas
OOC: Every part of this exercise has been agreed to in PM between me and Serafina. Just incase you were wondering. Also both this and the negotiations with the Federal Republic of Nysacia are taking place at the time the initial offers were made which means that while the main story progresses this still takes time in the "past"..Interdictor made a microjump close to the gravity well of the station and focused its firepower on a section of the shield that had not been stressed before the culture techs were able to redirect enough energy to stop it though it stressed the shield to the maximum and depleted the emergency reserves.. The superior firepower coming from two directions burned down the shields of the Carracks and reduced them to flaming hulks
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Re: STAR WARS: A Galaxy Divided IC
11:52 5-Sep-09
[Replies: 289, Views: 10476]
By: Thanas
As for the success of integration politics in the rest of the Remnant we have had some terrorist incidents from both sides but law enforcement seems to be able to keep them in check.. the Perditor battle carrier um you are trying to stuff more starfighters into it than even the CIS Carriers while greater firepower and allowing no greater volume to care for the maned fighters or the development of new light fighters that have anywhere near the volume of the automated CIS fighters.. It is as much dependent on speed firepower and sensors
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Re: Failing Guns of MW2
14:08 8-Feb-10
[Replies: 58, Views: 1795]
By: m4n71c0r3
modes and im currently sitting at level 8 of the 9th prestige and have gotten there by complete legit methods.. Assault Rifles F2000 - Fastest firing AR in the category but at the same time one of the least accurate.. Firepower is the same as the m4/acr but accuracy is slightly higher than the tar.. In this scenario ppl would more so go towards the acr/m4 or if the want something in between the F2000 and acr with more firepower they would aim towards the TAR
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