[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 767 - Aerospace Gunship

[Zan Lynx]

Onno Meyer wrote:
>   This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the 
> GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial 
> redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on 
> a website or the like. The files at omeyer.gmxhome.de are down until 
> I fix the automatic PDF generation, which should be one of these 
> days - see sourceforge.net/projects/gurpsml
>   Onno Meyer, 2009-07-06
> 
>   The 'double issue' of this week presents the same ship twice, once as 
> a Vehicles design and once with the new Spaceships rules. The Spaceship 
> has a slightly lower troop capacity and lacks the point defense, but 
> otherwise it is a remarkably good fit except for the armor values.
> 
> Aerospace Gunship v1.0 (TL11)
>   Copyright 2009 by Onno Meyer
> 
>   This Gunship is carried by larger interstellar craft for operations on 
> and near planets. While it is capable of short FTL jumps, the Gunship is 
> also small enough to weave around hills or storm clouds.
>   The Aerospace Gunship has an arrowhead shape with the main x-ray laser 
> in the nose and two missile launchers in bulges under the hull. The crew 
> seats and the small troop/cargo bay are placed in the center, protected 
> by the bulk of the engines in addition to the armor. Most missions last 
> for a few hours, but a relief crew in the payload bay allows flights of 
> a day or more.
>   The fusion reactor can recharge one main laser shot every 180 seconds.

Once every three minutes?  That's a long time in fighter combat!  I know 
it has missiles too, but...

Can the laser be fired more often with whatever charge has built up? 
Once every 90 seconds at half power, once every second at 1/180th ... 
could be good for strafing an infantry column or something.

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Zan Lynx
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