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[Janitor101]

Word of warning, I've managed to acquire some free time, will be updating shortly in the next hour or two.

[guardian wolf]

Janitor, I'll be posting here again, ASAP. RL is calming down, so I believe it's high time I got back in.

[dal10]

Valid question time. can i throw a rock at one of the planes? cause i think it would be funny to down an aerospace fighter with a 500 pound piece of rubble.

(it would be during the strafing runs, not the bomb drops. cause strafing runs wouldn't be handled at 4000 meters in the air)

Edited by dal10, 10 August 2013 - 12:53 PM.

[guardian wolf]

Will be getting post up tomorrow.

[guardian wolf]

Okay can someone give me a summary of what happened? So that I can get a post in much quicker?

[dal10]

dude, we are like 2 posts past the repairs at the arty base we captured.

[guardian wolf]

Alright, umm..... what could I have Shade been doing in between?.................................................... I got some drafts up on Word, word of warning, WOT will be inbound, due tomorrow evening with finished drafts.

[dal10]

damnit thom, that was my plan...

[Thom Frankfurt]

dal10, on 14 August 2013 - 04:27 AM, said:

damnit thom, that was my plan...

Didn't mean to steal your thunder, it just seems like the best course of action to me. Like if we had a Rifleman, Jaegermech or anything else really geared up for anti air maybe Bill would have stayed out to help out. But since we don't....

Edited by Thom Frankfurt, 14 August 2013 - 06:11 AM.

[dal10]

meh, **** happens. but yeah, collapsing a building on yourself is the best course of action. a direct hit would be necessary to do anything to you.

[Janitor101]

The fighters are carrying conventional explosives, not anything crazy like Arrow IV's.
I mostly set this up to kill off guardian's character cause he'd dropped out, but since he's back... I'll figure something out.

[Thom Frankfurt]

I'm going from what I remember on bombs, or at least what I remember the Munchkin I used to game with telling me about bombs in BT. Nasty, nasty, nasty... but then again he is/was a Munchkin and therefore prob not giving all the info of just applying what he wanted and ignoring the rest. He's really bad about doing that.

[dal10]

bombs hurt. i know that.

[Spokes]

Bombing

Most fighters are equipped to carry bombs, though the capacity varies depending on the size and engine power of the unit. Each unit can carry one bomb for every 5 tons of mass, but each increment of 5 bombs (or fraction thereof) carried reduces the unit's Safe Thrust by 1.

A unit can make either a bombing attack or a weapons attack in a single turn. Bombs can be delivered in one of two ways: dive bombing or level bombing. Dive bombing is more accurate, but requires the attacker to lose altitude and exposes him to return fire. Level bombing is less precise, but allows attacks against a strip of ground, much like a strafing run.

The base-to-hit for a dive bombing attack is +2. Terrain and target movement modifiers are ignored. If the attack misses, each bomb scatters to a random adjacent hex and detonates as normal. In this way, cluster bombs (described below) guarantee a hit regardless of the attack roll. The pilot may drop any number of bombs in a single attack.

The base-to-hit for a dive bombing attack is +2. Level bombing attacks may be made from any altitude, but suffer an additional to-hit penalty equal to their altitude level. Terrain and target movement modifiers do not apply. Level bombing attacks a continuous line of hexes along the attack/flight line. Level-bombing can attack up to 10 hexes, but the fighter must drop a minimum of one bomb and a maximum of two bombs in each hex. All targeted hexes must be adjacent. Missed attacks scatter and detonate in one of the three forward adjacent hexes in the direction of the flight line.

Damage inflicted by bombs is split into 5-point groups in the same manner as LRM and artillery fire.

Targets suffer damage in either the front or back, 50/50 chance for each damage group.

Munitions types

High Explosive (HE): Each HE bomb causes 10 points of damage to all units in the target hex.

Cluster: A cluster bomb inflicts 5 points of damage on targets in the impact hex and an additional 5 points in each of the six adjacent hexes.

Laser-Guided (LG): Laser-guided bombs home in on targets designated by TAG equipment. They behave as HE bombs in all other regards. Reduce the attack role modifier against a TAG designated target by 2.

Inferno: An inferno bomb creates a fire in the hex of impact (even open water) that burns for 30 turns.

Mines: Similar to FASCAM (Thunder) submunitions, a mine-laying bomb creates a 20-point conventional minefield in the hex of impact and in each of the adjacent six hexes.

TAG Pod: TAG units may be mounted as external ordinance (though would be LosTech where we are) and occupy the same space as a single bomb.

[Spokes]

I'm going to be unavailable from tomorrow through next Tuesday, and I likely won't have time to get a post up before then. I'll see to this when I get back.

[dal10]

so by this logic, the sabres can carry a maximum of 5 bombs. 30 bombs which means if they are level bombing then can hit 30 squares in lines of 5. so yeah, either way my plan of running under the bombings (aka running towards where the planes are coming from so the bombs land behind me) should work.

[Spokes]

We can return fire. The rules are too involved really, but long story short the easier the fighters make it to attack us, the easier it is for us to hit them.

Having said that, the city streets have us corralled into nice firing lanes for them, and Li isn't going to be able to do any significant damage. Are we making for the river then?

[Thom Frankfurt]

I crashed into a warehouse and took cover

[dal10]

i had a post written up and posted but the website crashed...

[dal10]

bump, cause bump. that and janitor has seem to gone the way of GAD III