So if anyone wants to post here they are welcome. I'm probably going to be building some of the stuff from tue ground up. I'm also going to introduce vehicles from halo wars and update the hunters to reach style the way they where ment to be fought. So first off let me start by I'm not truing to offend those who built these stats, I just feel they need to be changed a bit and anfew correctionts need to be made on halo wiki, if you have any classes ideas or stats that you would like to post feel free to do so.
M313 "ELEPHANT" HRV Behemoth Class TT
Crew 1-4 (3 are for gun turrets)
passagers 12-16 cargo: 150,000lbs or 75 tons
int -4
maneuver -8
speed 30(8) upgraded with duel motor 60(16) upgrade pdc 18
defense: 8 hardness: 15 with ceramic armor 20 upgrade pdc 19
Hit points: 80 size collosal
PDC: 40 (+3) military
OK so i was wrong it can only carry a warthog inside however it's 85 feet long, ok so that makes it 17 squares long and 8 squares wide, like i said massive. this is the hard top version so all oqupaints (unless on turrets) gain full cover while the door is closed and 9/10s while the door is open unless they are standing in the open door. here are my redone stats ill admit most are the same for the elephant, but i corrected and added a few things.
when this is bought is comes with 3 mounted Laag turrets, however the elephant can be upgraded to have an aurtomanted defense turret that attacks any nonfreindly (iff signal required). also the elephant has an area for a small command post, a medical bay, and engineering areas(all of these can be outfitted as the player sees fit). the elephant is big enough to hold 1 warthog or 6 mongoose inside and still have rooms for other amenity. it takes a full round to lock down an elephat at which time it's rear ramp can be lowered to launch the warthog or others. also you can upgrade the mounted turrets to be gauss though this ruins the AA purpose of the mounted guns.
Automated defense turret (attached to the elephant)
PDC
based on targeting software package) +5 package dc 25,+10 package dc, +15 package dc 31Damage: 6d8 (always fires in burst fire or autofire) ballistic
Ammo: 1500 round belt (purchase dc for 20mm rounds)
This 20mm link fired cannon sits on top of the elephant and can attack 360 degrees. The cannon attacks any enemies within 50ft of the elephant the package +10 package can attack 2 times per round, the + 15 package 3 times. If you have access to an AI that can use the system, the AI uses it's attack rolls for the automated defense turret. Warning: if you think your IFF is failing to register please wait till an ally shuts off the defense turret if not accidental death my result.
Edit 2:12am- So for starters I am takings the RAW Future stats for the Orbital Shuttle and tweaking them a bit... a little higher HP for one trying to figure out things like the Motion Tracker listed in the HALO wiki amongst that which is listed including swapping out the armor for something similar
For the A.I. I am looking at Cyberscape for ideas
Str: 28. Hd: 8d12+30 (72)
Dex: 16 Defense: 24= 10+ 8+4+3 -1
Con: 20. Armor pen 12
Int: 13. reflex: +15
Wis: 10. Fort: +22
Cha: 1. Will: +10
Hardness 15
Grafted armor, grafted shield, light fortification, critical hit weakness, flanking weakness, grafted weapon, mass damage immunity, blind sight 90ft, whirlwind attack,(for hunters with assault cannons, burst fire, auto-fire, strafe) weakness to fire, trample
Melee: sheild bash, 3d8+9 (slashing or blugeoning)AR +21
ranged: (AR +15) Fuel rod cannon 10d8 fire ignores 15 hardness burst radius 15ft reflex range Inc: 90ft
Assault cannon 6d8 fire ignores 5 hardness, this weapon is full auto. Range Inc 90ft
Grafted armor: this armor is part of a hunters body it provides the hunter with a +8 to armor class a max Dex of +3 and an armor pen of - 8 due to the weight. This armor provides the hunter with a hardness of 15
Grafted shield: this shield Is grafted to the hunters left arm and provides the hunter an armor class bonus of +4 and an armor pen of -4. The shield can also be used to make bashing or slashing attacks with the tip.
Grafted weapon: a hunter has either a fuel rod cannon or assault cannon grafted to it's right arm, any grafted weapons can't be disarmed.
Critical hit weakness: due to the gaps int the hunters armor when a hunter gets hit and the fact that it is a colony of worms. Any weapon that hit's critical modifier is increased by 1.
fire weakness: a hunter takes double damage from fire weapons (after hardness is subtracted from the attack) This is due to the fact that the colony of worms inside are getting cooked inside the armor.
Flanking weakness: if you have a flanking bonus on a hunter and the hunter is not facing you, it's hardness is not applied against your attack.
trample: 4d8 bludgeoning damage dc23 reflex after attack of opportunity
Light fortification: due to the armor, it is harder to score critical hits on a hunter. The hunter has a 25% chance of ignoring a critical hit or sneak attack
Sry anime sniper I left out a hunter ability
Rage for a fallen brother
When a hunters bond brother dies the surviving hunter flies into a rage till it is killed, or the target that killed it's bond brother is dead.
The hunter gains +8 str +10 move speed and an extra attack per round at it's highest bonus ( note normally a hunter only makes 1 attack per round)
See, in the books it wasn't about just how strong they where, that only mattered with elites, brutes, and hunters. The real problem was numbers when the enemy can field 1000 armed gunts against your 250 men then your screwed. You see the covy overwhelms there enemy's with numbers and high lvls of tech, so these stats I will create will reflect that. Please dms who use these please bear in mind there will be alot of covy ordnance on tue ground that is fine, just remember to make the numbers feel hopeless, and that covy grenades can be cooked off. I'll post troop ratios after I get the stats up.
First I am using the Orbital Shutlle from the Future as a base while increasing the HD to either 8d20 or giving a +40 to the rolled 6d20 and leaving it for all Pelicans off the Production line...
-EDIT 4-29-2011 Below-
1a: For the NMPD variant I was thinking use just the 6d20 and keep the Steel alloy armor while limiting its use in outer space
2a: For the original Dropship 77 Troop Carrier allow for either the 8d20 or +20 to the rolled 6d20 HD
3a: For the DC77H TCI-Pelican use the 8d20 or the +40 to the 6d20 HD
Second I am looking at changing the armor from Steel Alloy to Cerametal of house-statting Ceramic-Titanium armor which would the next PL up from cerametal
Third, I've found a 40mm autocannon out of my Modern Military Vehicles books statted at 3d12 HE and am trying to house-stat the 70mm autocannon and Rotary Cannon...
Fourth, for the ANVIL-II ASM I am either going to use the stats for an appropriate missile from Modern Military Vehicles or the Missile Pods, statted at 15d6, from dandwiki webage
Fifth, the AIE486H HMG (2d12) and the M247 GPMG both (not statted) use 7.62x51mm Nato rounds as mentioned in the HALO wiki pages... so I could go by the stats on Dandwiki page or skim the Weapons Locker for a similar machine guns stats and use them instead...
I should have grunts and jackles done shortly.
Actually.. make the 40mm do the 4d10, so only some what better in max damage over the 20mm, but grant larger range, and allow it to ignore 5 points of hardness to make it more attractive over 20mm. The 70mm you can have the damage up to 5d10 or 5d12. Still below the rail cannon and gauss gun in d20 future. Of course the 70mm would have reduced payload. You can also give the 70mm more ammo options for things like HEAT.. sure you can add them to the 40mm but definitely make the 70mm the weapon of choice for variable ammo.
Just an idea.
40mm Autocannon
Damage: 3d12 High Explosive rounds
Type: Blast
Critical: 20
Range Increments: 180'
Rate of Fire: A
Notes: Automatic, Blast 108
For the 20mm Autocannon the stats are
20mm Autocannon
Damage: 4d6 High Explosive rounds
Type: Blast
Critical: 20
Range Increments: 120'
Rate of Fire: A
Notes: Automatic, Blast 56
For variable ammo I could say use as listed damage rolled plus the a one time bonus for say Thermite or White Phosphorous rounds of lets say 3d8 fire damage to everything in the burst radius...
On another note about weapon stats on the DanDwiki page both the 90mm Hyper Velocity Gun for the Scorpion and the Missile Pod are statted at 15d6 each... looking at that would either 6d10 or 6d12 for the 70mm Autocannon as well as the Rotory Cannon version be feasible...
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APDS- Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot
APDU-Armor Piercing Depleted Uranium
APFSDS- Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot
HESH- High Explosive Squash Head
HEAP- High Explosive Anti-Personnel
API- Anti-Personnel Infantryman
AP- Armor Piercing
Smoke
Thermite
White Phosphorous
CVX- Poisonous Gas Shells use Smoke rules
CHAFF- Airburst rounds a set distance from vehciles to disrupt Heat guided weaponry
Flares-
APDS- Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot
APDU-Armor Piercing Depleted Uranium
APFSDS- Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot
HESH- High Explosive Squash Head
HEAP- High Explosive Anti-Personnel
API- Anti-Personnel Infantryman
AP- Armor Piercing
Smoke
Thermite
White Phosphorous
CVX- Poisonous Gas Shells use Smoke rules
CHAFF- Airburst rounds a set distance from vehciles to disrupt Heat guided weaponry
Flares-
As to flares, I mean you have them for mortar tubes and I would have to ask a military savy friend and my brother about it but I think there used to be an experimental artillery shell from the korean war era...
70mm Autocannon {Hombrew}
Damage: 6d12, 3d20 or 4d20 High Explosive rounds
Type: Blast
Critical: 20
Range Increments: 300’
Rate of Fire: A
Notes: Automatic, Blast 108
70mm Rotary Cannon {Homebrew}
Damage: 6d12, 3d20 or 4d20 High Explosive rounds }
Type: Blast
Critical: 20
Range Increments: 300’
Rate of Fire: A
Notes: Automatic, Blast 108
As for the Pods do you mean the ODST's HEV pods or what... as for Pre-fab bases I usually think of such things as modular units meaning you have the following made out of probably some listed starship alloy in the corebook
1: Floor Plates measuring x-by-x feet that can be laid down on level terrain which are interlockable to create large structures and can be used for consecutive floors above or belowground
2: Exterior supporting walls that make up the exterior wals with designated door sections for entry points
and are x-by-x sections normally taller than a normal height person
3: Interior support pylons and wall sections
4: Elevators and stairwells as and where needed
Of course what was in HALO Wars was in lamens terms a drop-and-forget module units that lands with subsequent modules being delivered; Power Generation, Barracks, Armory, Anti-Aircraft turrets, and etcetera showing up.... This is basically a 'We need a Base Yesterday' at a designated Firebase DZ/LZ
-EDIT 2:00am- There is infact actual flares for artillery and tank cannons as my brother verified it for me... so you could load a 20/50 round belt of flares as the starting belt in the autocannons feed system before having the linked HE or variants feed through... instant illumination of the darkened ruins before bringing the pain
EDIT: As for the 25 mm grenade, use the mini grenade rules. Or just take a 40mm grenade and reduce damage by 1 die, range by 25 to 40%.
@ Kira : I haven't had a chance to really go through much on the prefab stuff. Had a lot of family and personal stuff I've had to take care off lately. Although at the moment, for a quick listening post, use the one already in Chuck's emporium, just reduce stuff to appropriate PL level. There are also camo tents for hiding troops while out in the field.
As for the resupply drop pods.. off the top of my head..
Supply Drop Pod A
This pod, measuring about 8 feet tall, 5 feet in diameter, used to drop supplies into hostile zones for troops below. It is weighted so that it always lands standing upright, comes with an IFF beacon to notify friendly troops it is in the area. A small thruster and flap system helps guide the pod so that it doesn't land in terrain like a lake, volcano or other extremely difficult area to reach, or right near enemy troops. To gain access to the goods inside, the friendly troops must either radio their ID signature to the pod's receiver, or type in a code on a keypad, which then releases the access panel.
The pod can contain about 500 lbs of gear that can fit inside the 7 foot long by 4 ft diameter space inside. This is usually a couple of longarms, couple of pistols, enough ammo for 4 reloads of each, several EMRs (emergency meal rations), 2 first aid kits, 1 trauma kit, 4 canteens of fresh water, 1 4 man tent, 50 ft of rope.
Other gear can be subsituted.
HP: 20
Hardness: 8
Weight: 310 lbs unloaded.
PDC: 11
How's that for a quick one?
The tent, rope, EMRs and water could be swapped out for more ammo or a different weapon and some ammo.
*Shrugs* Also the sizes I have for mine is slightly shorter than the Halo version. Either way, if you guys want to use the version I put up, feel free, if not, ignore or alter.
I couldn't find It but is there splaser stats up, cause I couldn't find them.
Oh yes in rereading the books it turns out that covenant active cammo generates alot heat meaning it very easy to find via thermal. Such a useful piece of gear with a huge weakness.
Also after I find a List of all the armor parts in reach I'll start stating them, to a point of course.
The Covenant have an active cloaking system on the armour of some of their soldiers. By using various metamaterials and an energy field that bends light. Users of the Active Camoflauge are invisible to most sensors, gaining a +30 bonus on Hide checks if immobile, or a +15 bonus on Hide checks if moving. However, if someone is using thermal based sensors, they gain a +10 bonus on Search and Spot checks to find someone using Covenant Active Camoflauge.
Duration: X (no idea how long it lasts in game, so insert x amount of time)
Weight: Part of the armour installed into
PDC: umm... no idea.. maybe 24 for Covenant to build?
How's that for the active camoflauge, off the top of my head. It's not as good as the spell Invisibility, doesn't disengage when you attack, as the spell would, trade off for the ability to attack.
Hp 2d8-2 (8)
defense 14 = 10 +3+1
Fort 6
Reflex 6
Will 4
Str 8
Dex 16
Con 10
Int 5
Wis 5
Cha 2
Special: suicide, demoralized, mishap, breathing harness
Breathing harness; the breathing harness is full of methane, so the grunt can breath. It can be targeted, or removed with a grapple check. Though if removed there is a 70% chance the grunt will attempt to suicide bomb the creature that removed it's mask. If the grunt is with fire there is a 30% chance that the grunt methane tank will explode doing 3d6 to everything in a 5 ft area.
Demoralization; when a the party leading the group of grunts dies the grunt makes a will save 14 or is afraid till another leader comes on or is dead. Note: grunt heroes, grunt deacons, elites, and brutes all count as leaders.
Suicide: sometimes grunts are commanded to commit suicide if there leader dies or just if the leader feels the battle is going poorly. Most grunts use plasma grenades to commit suicide, pulling 2 out and lighting running head long at the enemy.
List of grunt types
Grunt regulars ( orange armor)
Grunt elites (silver armor)
Suicide grunt squad (purple armor)
Grunt veteran (red armor)
Grunt specialist ( green armor)
Grunt hero (black armor)
Grunt deacon (blue armor)
So ya we need to decide to go with traditional explosives or more of a thermite burn.
But in the mean time I have some thing for you.
C-4 spray foam
4d6 concussion 10 ft burst
Reflex 18
PDC 14 (+3)
Weight: 1 lb
Each can of c-4 spray foam contains 4 uses, as a specal note this type of exsplosives does not need a demolitions check in order to link multiple charges together you just spray the foam in the same spot. Detonators sold speratly.
Damage: 2d4 piercing
Rate of fire: full auto
Ammo: 30
Range increment: 30ft
Weight: 5lbs
Special: if a target with burst fire from this weapon 3 times In the same round the needles from the needled explode dealing an extra 3d6 slashing damage
"Spartan" laser
Damage: 12d6 fire ignores 20 hardness
Range: 200ft line attack reflex 18 for half
Ammo: 5
PDC: 24 (+3 military)
weight: 30lbs
Firing this weapon is a full round action. There are currently no mobile charging facilities for this weapon so it can only be charged at a base or on a ship. Also the internal battery pack is non replaceable.
(yes the price is correct it costed about 6 million)
Here are some weapons I rewrote/ wrote tell me what you think. I'm thinking the rest of the grunt types and a few more weapons after we finalize these we need to correct D&D wiki.
You know what would be neat is a halo era anti-personal mine, that reminds me I need to put lotus anti-tank mines on the must stat list.
I like yOurs and your right they make more sense to carry more stuff. The ones in halo reach only seem to carry 1 weapon. On that subject who else thought that the mongoose was a horrific waste of resources tO build? I couldn't find It but is there splaser stats up, cause I couldn't find them. Oh yes in rereading the books it turns out that covenant active cammo generates alot heat meaning it very easy to find via thermal. Such a useful piece of gear with a huge weakness. Also after I find a List of all the armor parts in reach I'll start stating them, to a point of course.
I say we keep Kronos's Resupply Pod stats for the Type-A version and I will work out something for the type B and C versions after I finish with the Pelicans and post them here... along with as I said tweaking them a bit...
I could see a single resupply pod being loaded out with what the soldiers planetside need the most... medical packs, bio-foam, medi-gel... ammunition for whatever guns they have.... and dedicated drops of new weaponry as needed...
So for weapon loadout would enough weapons, Primary weapon & sidearms, in a canister for say a squad of marines (8-13 troops) be sufficient... this could be more if needed and I'll ask my brother how many rifles are normally in a crate that armed forces use
Medical Packs, Bio-foam, Medi-gel need to work them out for how much HP they replace and duration in the case of bio-foam and medi-gel
-EDIT- Okay so I was lookin at the old Halo forum and cam across the UNSC Frigates weapons stats and remembered my own attempts at statting out MAC Guns and Linear Rail Guns/Cannons so I could post those also...
Following UNSC Frigates weapons were....
Weapons:50mm Point Defense Guns (50)
Fire arc: front, Bonus: +8, Damage: 6d10, Range modifier: PB:+1, M: +3, L: -1,
Weapons: Archer Missile Pods (26 Pods 6 missiles per pod)
Fire arc: Front(1/2) Aft (1/4) Port (1/4) , Bonus: +10, Damage: 8d10, Range
modifier: PB:+1, M: +0, L: -1,
Weapons: MAC[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]*
Fire arc: front, Bonus: +14, Damage: 15d10x4, Range modifier: PB:+1, M: +2, L:
+3,
*Can Only Fire once per 10 rounds
Took a visit to the old HALO forum here and spotted the stats for the UNSC Frigate class Starship which were thus...
UNSC Frigate
Class: Capital [Frigate]
Crew: 10+AI ( 1 Captain 2 pilots 1 Navigator 1 Communications 1 Weapons Officer4 flight crew) (expert +8)
Size: Gargantuan Initiative: -2 Slipspace Drive: Yes
Maneuver: +6 Passengers: 200 Defense: 32
Cargo: 11,000 kg Consumbles:4 Months Hull: 210
Cost: N/A Max speed: ramming
Atmospheric speed: 30 squares
Weapons:50mm Point Defense Guns (50)
Fire arc: front, Bonus: +8, Damage: 6d10, Range modifier: PB:+1, M: +3, L: -1,
Weapons: Archer Missile Pods (26 Pods 6 missiles per pod)
Fire arc: Front(1/2) Aft (1/4) Port (1/4) , Bonus: +10, Damage: 8d10, Range modifier: PB:+1, M: +0, L: -1,
Weapons: MAC[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]*
Fire arc: front, Bonus: +14, Damage: 15d10x4, Range modifier: PB:+1, M: +2, L:+3,
*Can Only Fire once per 10 rounds
Now for my own MAC Gun, Gargantuan size, since their built into the ships I statted mine at the following at 8d20, Crit 20x6 when I houseruled a few yet haven't playtested them yet...
Medi-gel is mass effect.
Bio-foam does not heal wounds like on D&d wiki, it is to stabilize severely wounded soldiers. It does have pain killers In it. On the subject of medical tech I've started to work out a way to run flash cloning tech in D&D, not whole people mind you, just body parts. Sadly it's a long haul on that one, I'm also working on updating more of the weapons.
I'm tring to decide if we shold have the option of giving wraith tanks heavy shields and there scorch ability from halo wars. On that note I reviewed the flamethrower that was posted o. The D&D wiki, it's great for the defoliator chief gets his hands on but it cant represent the hellbringer flamethrower. Not enough ammo, this presents an inteisting challenge for weight. I have a list of flamethrower upgrades berived from personal experiane with the weapon and from halo wars. ( the personal experience being in d20 modern).
Coming up next
Needle rifle
Bio-foam
Lotus anti-tank mine
Flash cloning vats, both portable and non
Shields both Spartan and elite ( note reach was crap, the covenant never had regenerating sheild technology, that was human innovation, after a little reverse engineering so please bear that in mind when the elites have higher sheild hp then the Spartans.)
Damage: 2d10 ballistic
Ammo: 15
Weight: 7 lbs
Rate of fire: semi-auto, or 3 round burst
Range increment: 90ft
This weapon fires 7.62mm rounds.
Assult rifle
Damage: 2d10 ballistic
Range increment: 60ft
Rate of fire: full auto
Ammo: 32
Weight: 9lbs
This weapon fires 7.62mm ammo, pls note that dmr magazines and assult rifle are not interchangeable
Needle rifle
Damage: 2d8 piercing
Range increment: 90ft
Rate of fire: semi-auto
Ammo: 21
Detonation: much like the needler if this weapon strikes an un shielded target 3 times in the same round the needles detonate dealing 3d6 slashing damage
Also, from this page here halo.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Explosives which explosives will I need to add to the Explosives table cause I recognize a few of them from the books that I have read
And then there are the bombs here halo.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Bombs which would be the need to take out Covenant ship A quickly via one of those listed
Also has anyone else had trouble when editing a previous post a few minutes later since I've noticed that when I've gone back to add something later like my homebrewed MAC gun stats that it won't appear for like a day or two... and on that note has anyone comments on my house statted MAC gun Gargantuan class 8d20 damage, Crit 20 x6 with a reload time of which I never figured out...
Sadly the Mac round is kinda like a nuke, catastrophic amounts of damage, I intend to use them as a plot device, normal charge time for a mass accelerated cannon is 1 min. However if the fukashawa drive (slip space drive) is taken off line this can be reduced to 45 seconds. This how ever is not the case for the prototype Mac on the pillar of autaum which, after charged the first time could fire 3 rounds in quick succession before needing recharging.
So that is where we stand with Macs from my point of view, just remember a Mac throws a 200+ ton slug at 1/4 the speed of light.
And Ty for the comment on my weapon stats, tried really hard to balance them. I may have under cut the damage for the needle explosions , but ATM I don't have a campain to test them in.
Ty for the other info I'll give it a run through and see what I gor. Also I'm writing up a full list of the visr systems full capabilities, I'm also rewriting the previous spartan augmentations, for 1s, 2s, and 3s.
Yes that is right I'm including project Orion.
I'd add a penalty to attacking with a MAC since the entire ship must move, PLUS it can only fire once a round, unless of a similar design to that on the Pillar of Autumn.
@ AnimeSniper : Maybe lower the number of dice before the multiplying.. like say 8d10x4. this gives it a damage range of 32 to 320. If you go that way. Hmm.. that seems a bit low.. but does reflect a shot that skims the hull to the hull gutting capability, without a huge critical modifier. With the ability to ignore 10 to 25 points of hardness/dr. With that, even on a roll of all 1s, it still punches into the hull and takes a chunk of hull plating out with it. Do a critical of 19-20 x4. So yeah, may not completely gut a battle cruiser (using d20 future pg 128), with 9000, on a single hit.. but 1280 on max damage with the stats I listed.. that's over 1/9th of the damage. When you combine something like that with say 5 out of 26 archer pods.. so 5 x 6 or more missiles plus any fighters launching missiles or any other weapons mounted on the ship..
d20 Future has ships above corvette with thousands of HP as a slug fest in trading shots back and forth, with weapons that deal only 40 to 75 average damage. Sure on a destroyer vs destroyer with a dozen weapons firing back and forth, it still just comes down to slug fest.
Yeah.. lot of babbling there.. as to your other point.. as to reload time.. Well.. Give the weapon a Single rate of fire, and an internal magazine of say.. 5 maybe. According to the Halo Wiki destroyers and such ships can carry dozens to hundreds of rounds, but a lot of the time they don't get the chance to use them. So with a ready magazine of 5 rounds, an internal store of say 50. Takes a number of rounds to reload related to crew level maybe? so for an npc crew, say 5 rounds - crew quality. With crew quality being Untrained 0, Trained 1, Expert 2, Ace 3. So an ace crew would have the magazine reloaded in 2 rounds. this is only 12 seconds. This is damn quick.
So if a destroyer with a MAC with an ace crew, and can fire every round, using just the mac to attack another destroyer, and hits every round, doing max damage, the MAC can do a max of 6400 points of damage at max damage with critical with the 5 rounds, wait two rounds to slug it with missiles and other weapons, then pound with another 5 MAC rounds. So the MAC destroyer can potentially destroy the other destroyer in about 8 rounds.
A frigate might only have a magazine of 3 rounds, and carry 25 rounds in storage. Some destroyers carry 2 MACs, can fire one mac then another, alternating so that when the first runs out, it starts reloading while still having an extra round of firing a MAC before it reloads, so that you only have 1 round of not having a MAC launching heavy rounds of ship destroying potential.
As to the charge time, which Kira pointed out, which I missed earlier, 1 minute for firing time.. ouch.. not very fun to play.. but if we want to keep the MAC closer to how it is in books or game.. how about 1 shot every 4 or 5 rounds.. half a minute, allows more shots to be fire and keeping in closer with how it's portrayed.
Also on the note of editing posts being a problem. Yes, I have noticed that a few times, although this was about a month ago or more, I haven't experienced it in the last week or so, but doesn't surprise me it's still happening.
Satchel charge
Damage: 8d8 concussive
Blast radius:50ft reflex 20 for half
This explosive can be timed or remote detonated, also used as a booby trap. Specal with a successful knowledge structural check on where to set the charge this explosive does double damage to buildings.
Weight: 10lbs
Could give cov shields a deflection bonus to reflex saves against energy area attacks.. like a nuclear explosion..
Question.. don't know if you'd answer this, but do bullets rip through covent personal shields faster than covent energy weapons? If so, then we just make a mechanic for all kinetic based weapons that do say +50% damage to shields, or more. Similar to fire based creatures take extra damage from cold.. only you know.. more vulnerable to bullets XP
That being that I had intended to have a +50% extra damage from plasma tacked on to the sheild stats. Though I think we should make the splaser and plasma weapons there own energy type I find fire type feels wrong. So I propose energy weapons do energy type damage. I did it one one of my previous campaigns it was a hit. Except to the resistance stacker he was pissed.
Sheild health: 100
When the shields health hits 0 the projectors overload and the sheild is destroyed. This sheild takes 50% more damage from plasma weapons ( or if we make energy weapons do energy type damage, the 50% more damage from weapons with the energy type damage)
Also, from browsing my Weapons Locker PDF I noticed most, actually all the 7.62mm guns are statted at 2d10 and nothing above 2d12 damage rolled.... so unless I figure a way for allowing multiplication of rolled damage by x-number of rounds fired that hit the target.... but then things like strafing the target in passing come into play then and things like fixed direction fire or 180' radius firing arcs also
And thanks for the comments/suggestions for MAC guns and I will rework the 12 variants from a Medium Rail Pistol sized 1d10 x2 on crits damage to the Super MAC 20d20 x20 on crits damage.... so I make a new table with the revisions then later.
Cerametal is PL 7 to would the typical Titanium-Ceramic/Ceramic-Titanium armor used by the UNSC for almost everything be late PL 7 or Early PL 8...
Alterations for those rules might be useful for lower level automatic weapons.
Yeah.. in RAW, only weapons that deal above 2d10 are .50 cal bmg range rounds. Wizards kind of nerfed it. What you could do is use something like the ZX caseless propellant I've used in a few weaposn in the 101 future weapons thread. I believe i mentioned for established weapons, could increase damage by a few points, plus increase range.
Ooooh.. I had a thought for a weapon.. or ammunition at least... There is a type of ammunition for shotguns that releases balls that when they strike something, release an electric charge.. Possibly make something similar for shotgun rounds maybe.. distrupts covent personal shields, since they seem to have problems with energy weapons.... oooh.. i need to work on that for the 101 future weapon thread. If you guys want it for halo here let me know and we can work on it faster.
There's some rules on the board for altering autofire damage, reflex save DCs, and area.. I think some might be posted on the Gunner robot in the Droid Showroom with a link maybe.. linked with the personal minigun.
Alterations for those rules might be useful for lower level automatic weapons.
Yeah.. in RAW, only weapons that deal above 2d10 are .50 cal bmg range rounds. Wizards kind of nerfed it. What you could do is use something like the ZX caseless propellant I've used in a few weaposn in the 101 future weapons thread. I believe i mentioned for established weapons, could increase damage by a few points, plus increase range.
Ooooh.. I had a thought for a weapon.. or ammunition at least... There is a type of ammunition for shotguns that releases balls that when they strike something, release an electric charge.. Possibly make something similar for shotgun rounds maybe.. distrupts covent personal shields, since they seem to have problems with energy weapons.... oooh.. i need to work on that for the 101 future weapon thread. If you guys want it for halo here let me know and we can work on it faster.
Could be an experimental muntions type that was being developed near the end of the war for repelling enemy boarding parties.... load one special disruption round than a normal 12gauage round repeat till fully loaded in a shotgun or pair NPC Marines with shotgun wielding troops and alternate as combat required
Higgins picki up O'Connely's shotgun as you're now resposible for taking out that Brutes shields....
"Sir I present to you for your review a workable grenade design using the the disruption rounds projectiles... Thompson came up with the idea of using old Prison facility Stingball Grenades as the casing while swapping out the released rubber rounds with the disruption rounds!"
"We're also seeing some results using old style Claymores as the housing case for a directional variant!"
Knights Armaments Master Key "S" from the Weapons Locker looks like proper underbarrel type needed
But ONI did develop a large scale disruption bomb (dropped off a longsword). And a hand grenades. The handgernades are in halo evolutions and the large scale bomb is from halo wars.
Both of which could destroy covenant sheild, mind you that is not what they do in the game but it's only fitting. So that will take down shields from elites to Covent bases.
M45 tactical shotgun
Damage: 2d10 ballistic
Range increment: 30ft
Internal magazine 6
Weight 9lbs
This is an 8 gauge shotgun.
I gave this weapon alot of thought before finishing it, crossed referencing shell size with recourses like the weapon locker. The largest shot gun shell I could find was a 4 gauge (roughly it was a Russian 23mm shotgun) and it did 2d12, the next step was a 10 gauge shotgun coming In at 2d10. So I safly assumed an 8 gauge shell would also do 2d10 opposed to the 3 d10 that is posted on the D&D wiki.
[dm notes: shotgun house rules, so here is mine. When a shotgun is fired within 10ft of a target a shotguns damage increases, in layman's terms the shotguns damage dice increase by 1 size to a max of d12s, and the shotguns critical hit multiplier is increased to 1)
Plasma pistol
Damage 2d10 fire ( energy)
Range increment: 30ft
Ammo: 50
Rate of fire: semi
Weight 2lbs
As a full round this weapon can be overcharged, this expends 10 ammo, this overcharged blast does double damage or reduces a shield to 0 hit points. When this fires it receives a heat counter, overcharging gains the weapon 10 heat counters. When this weapon has 10 heat counters the weapon overheats, while the weapon is over heated it can't fire. This weapon dissipates heat counters at a rate of 2 per round while not fired.
Plasma rifle
Damage 3d8 fire (energy)
Ammo: 50
Rate of fire: auto
Range increment: 60ft
Weight: 11 lbs
Each time this weapon attacks it gains a heat counter, burst fire gains 5 heat counters, auto-fire 5 heat counters. When this weapon gets 20 this weapon overheats and can't be fired till all the heat counters are gone. This weapon dissipates heat counters at a rate of 3 per round while the weapon isn't firing.
Brute plasma rifle
Damage: 3d10 fire (energy)
Ammo: 50
Rate of fire: auto
Range increment: 60ft
Weight: 11 lbs
This is an over-clocked version of the standard plasma rifle made for the brutes after there rise to power. This weapon can handle 20 heat counters before over heating, this weapon dissipates heat at 3 counters per round. This weapon receives 2 heat counter for every time its fired, 7 for auto-fire and burst fire.when this weapon overheats it can't be fired till all heat counters are gone.
Heavy needler (mounted anti-aircraft gun)
Damage 3d12 preircing ignores 15 hardness
Ammo: 200 rounds
Rate of fire: full auto
Range increment: 150ft
Weight: 115lbs
This is a much larger version of the needler used as an anti-aircraft gun. (reference halo wars mounted on vampire, and the book first strike). It fire needles nearly 3 ft long. If a target is hit by burst fire from this weapon or 3 attacks in the same round the resulting explosion does 10d6 slashing ignoring all hardness as the needles are embedded in the target.
Plasma repeater
Damage: 3d8 fire (energy)
Ammo: 50
Range increment: 60ft
Rate of fire: auto
Weight 12lbs
This is a special forces plasma rifle with a special heat venting system. This weapon can get 20 heat counters before overheating, at which point the weapon automatically spends a full round venting all it's heat counters. Every time this weapon is fired it receives 1 heat counter, receives 5 for auto fire and burst fire. As a free action you can choose to force cool the weapon, this removes all heat counters. The weapon cant be fire during the full round it's cooling.
(note you are welcome to rewrite these so they are easier to understand)
plasma cannon
Damage: 3d12 fire (energy)
Ammo: 300 rounds
Range increment: 100ft
Rate of fire: full auto
Weight 85lbs
Usually mounted on a tripod or vechile, or carried by brute or elite heavy troopers.
Please note: ONI has not figured out how to recharge covenant weapons.
Unless it's a specific frequency range in the EM frequencies... hmmm... yes.. I'm babbling to myself here. We mad scientists do this sometimes. That or talking to our inventions.
Off the top of my head.. the energy disruptor and power drain will have a radius of say.. 20 ft, shields do not provide any bonus, so no temp hp, deflection bonus or whatever they do. Also electronic equipment, so plasma weaponry, lasers, sensors, spark plugs, plasma regulators, whatever in vehicles will have problems.. so a vehicle must make a Fort save say.. DC 20? or shut down/disabled while in the disruptor field. Any cybernetics same deal.. If they make the save or don't make the save give them 1d6 points of electrical damage.
energy disruptor lasts for 1d4 rounds (new tech, not exactly predictable until mk2s), then explode dealing 2d4 damage.. half slashing/half fire maybe in a 10 ft radius, reflex dc 15 for half damage.
PDC say.. 24 for a box of 5 restriction military and rare, making it (+5) unless specially issued?
Just off the top of my head.. I'll streamline it later this weekend.
Wow I gotta thank you guys for helping me with the rewrite. My group also sends there thanks, and apparently a tank... Well so we are using some of the gear right now in a zombie survival game, and a fallout game. I know wtf right? Well my group knows dam well I use zombies as a testbed for gear when I can. Turns out the elephant's defense turret is reLlu scary against zombies.
Ok so zombie leads me to the flood, any ideas I'm kinda stumped on that one.
As to the flood and its many forms... well give me time to look over the halo wiki pages for some intel and I could have some suggestions
Except the M6 which uses a 12.7x30mm semi AP HE round.. it's a bit smaller than .50 AE pistol rounds.. so I can see giving it the 2d8 for the .50 AE.. but also give it ignore 1 point of Def from armour or ignore 1 or 2 points of hardness/dr depending on your rules, plus +1d4 fire for the HE capability. and some extra range.. maybe an extra 5 to 10 ft?
the AMR rifle round is bigger than a .50 cal bmg round.. not by much.. so definitely 2d12 damage.. maybe give it ignore 5 points hardness/dr (like in rules I suggest for AMR rounds).. maybe make the damage 2d12+2, giving it a little boosted damage as it's a little wider, but shorter, and with a little extra range for advances in propellant.
Shotguns are a different story.. with them being 8 gauge and d20 modern only goes up to 10 gauge. and 8 gauges are larger, meaning all Halo shotguns are a fair bit larger than most modern shotguns to accommodate the same amount of rounds. And technically we'll have to make 8 gauge deal 2d12 damage. or maybe 3d8 or 4d6. same max damage as the heavier .50 bmg, but higher lower end damage, and this allows us to play with the numbers somewhat for variable ammunition.
Gotta love how Halo uses odd sizes for their weapons, plus with d20 modern nerfing .50 bmg, makes building some weapons fairly difficult in creating new stuff that doesn't quite fit.
Like the SMG, I compared the size of it compared to current weapon sizes, and it's only the size of a .22 LR, which deals 2d4. Although checking other calibers.. it's smaller than the 5.7 which the 5Seven and P90 uses, both in diameter and length, but not by much. And that round deals either 2d6 or 2d8 depending on your rules or source. I was using the excuse of better propellant for damage of 2d6 as a logical reason for that range of damage. If you want it to do 2d8, that's up to you. Or even 2d4.
As for the 4 ga in weapons locker, I'm lacking that book so I wasn't aware of it. I'll have to look for a copy at some point.
And smart players would definitely find a way to have their strongest member to try and wield something like that as the character wouldn't need to also carry ammo or stop to find more, even after a full minute (10 rounds) of full auto fire each round.
More weapons
Smg
Damage: 2d6 ballistic
Range increment: 50ft
Rate of fire: auto
Ammo: 60
Weight: 5lbs
Sniper rifle
Damage: 2d12 ballistic
Range increment: 140 ft
Ammo: 5
Rate of fire: semi
Weight: 15lbs
This sniper rifle is considered masterwork as such it gets +2 on attack rolls.
Ammo types:
Armor piercing (high velocity self discarding sabot rounds): these rounds ignore 10 hardness, also these rounds do double damage to shields.
Shredder rounds (high velocity anti-personal rounds): these rounds impose a -10 penalty against fort check ment to against mass damage.
Brute spiker
Damage: 2d6 piercing
Range increment: 60ft
Ammo: 40
Rate of fire: auto
Weight: 13lbs
This weapon only takes a -2 when using burst fired. This is thanks to it's advanced recoil suppression.
Brute rifle
Damage: 4d6 slashing 5ft burst reflex 15 for half
Range increment: 80ft
Ammo: 6 (belts)
Rate of fire: semi
Weight: 25 lbs
This weapon's rifle but is actually a blade that deals 1d8 slashing. Also this weapons ammo is prawn to cook-off When outside the weapon or In a suitable container.
Covenant plasma gernade
Damage: 4d8 fire (energy)
Blast radius: 30ft reflex dc 18 for half
Weight 1 lb
When the plasma gernade's safety switch is released, the gernade bonds to the first object or target. This weapon can be used as a direct attack. If this gernade bonds to a target creature or vehicle, via a direct attack, the target is not entitled to a reflex save. Also if bonded ignores 10 hardness. These gernades are prown to cookoff when fired upon or splashed by gernades.
Brute spiker germade
Damage: 4d6 slashing
Blast radius 10ft, and a 20ft cone facing towad thrower reflex 19 for half
Weight 1.5lbs
If this gernade is used as a direct attack, the gernade does 1d6 piercing damage, and the target is not allowed a saving throw.
Gravity hammer
Damage: 1d12 bludgeoning
Ammo: 10
Weight: 40lbs
Abilities:
Gravity smash: using this ability is a full attack action. Gravity smash does 4d8 concussion to everything in a 20ft radius emanating in the hammer users square. This consumes 1 ammo from the hammer.
Chieftain hammer: increase ammo to 20.
I need to find the info on the ship that drops the bases in Halo Wars and then work out numbers from there.
though. We call them orcas.
halo.wikia.com/wiki/Pod
This about all I could find on them...
If either of you two can get me info on height of tank or a pic of a tank being carried, that'll help me in the dimensions of a type of small building that a pelican can drop.
@ Kira : Yeah, I know this isn't full scale building you're looking for, but I figure, why wouldn't they have a small type of bunker or turret/listening post that they can drop really quick with a pelican. Also gives me some practice before developing the larger scale ones.
That reminds me did you see the extra passenger pod attachment for the pelican?
Ok so from what I found the scorpion is carried barrel facing away from the body of the pelican. With the main chasie in line with the barrel. Supported by a hard point on the top of the turret. I suggest using the reach profile for the scorpoin, it has a more realistic feel and a lower profile. So it says a scorpion weighs in at 66 tons, and there is a light armor variant which would probably weigh in at 60 ton. That means a grizzly would out weight the pelicans carry weight. So we use albitoses to drop them. That reminds me did you see the extra passenger pod attachment for the pelican?
Yeah, I saw the passenger pod. But it's only going to be as wide as the pelican's body, so not much more than the main passenger area.
Reason I'm not going the ODST drop pod route first is this thing will be more expensive than an ODST pod, so you're gonna want to make sure it lands close to where you want it. Plus, if deployed with a pelican, the pelican can still carry it's standard troop compliment. So you need to defend a pass? So you load up say 2 pelicans with standard troops plus a bunk pod. Fly close to the pass, drop bunker, then either have troops jump out or land close to bunker drop point. Now you've got two armoured gun emplacements with like 20 troops available from only two pelicans. And they're within meters of where they need to be.
I could make an orbital drop version as well.. survival and accuracy not as guaranteed.
As to it being only facing backwards I see a few reason
1. Fly behind the enemy lines with several scorpions and etcetera and attack from both the front and rear ranks sowing destructions
2. A Pelican would angle around to drop said vehicle facing the enemy before returning to its base for another tank or whatnot
3. Probably to keep trigger happy marines from firing a shell through the pelican before their detached...
A Scorpion MBT weighs in at 66metric tons or 65 LT 73 ST as stated here halo.wikia.com/wiki/M808B_Main_Battle_Ta... with
The Grizzly given here halo.wikia.com/wiki/Grizzly has no weight given but I could see as its better it could weigh up to 70metric tons... let me do the math calculation later tomorrow
The Warthog weighs in at 3 metric tons or 3.25 tons
As to dropping a bunker... I say a modified Albatross halo.wikia.com/wiki/Albatross could fit the role whereas instead of cargo bay you have bunkers or your pre-fabricated base sections sized to fit that area...
X2201 Deployable Bunker
The deployable bunker is an experiment in rapid deployment structures to give soldiers a higher survival rate while defending strategic locations in the field. A packed up bunker looks like a rounded cornered can, about 32 feet long, 15 feet wide and 12 feet high, with the outer shell looking like a large jigsaw puzzle. There are docking clamps on the top for a pelican to attach to, and the bottom has a couple of retro and maneuvering thrusters for when air dropped from a high altitude. After it lands, a soldier must enter in a code to deploy the bunker. This can be done manually on a concealed key pad, or by their radio, similar to the supply drop canisters.
The bunker then deploys, raising the roof by 6 feet, expanding the sides out another 10 feet, revealing the armoured door and windows. The raised roof is a covered platform from which soldiers can stand on and rests their weapons on the walls. At one end is a cylinder tube which can raise up another 20 feet which has several sensors and a ladder with a covered crow's nest like spot for spotters or snipers. The platform has several mounts for heavier weapons which can slide along the entire perimeter on a rail. Allow soldiers to shift their weapon to a better firing position.
The inside contains several bunks for soldiers to rest on, a small table, a water tank and storage unit with rations for 10 soldiers to eat for 5 days plus room for any fresh supplies. There is also several weapons lockers, which come stocked with 10 rifles, 10 pistols, 2 sniper rifles, 4 shotguns with about 20 reloads each, 2 heavy machineguns such as the AIE-486H heavy machine gun with 10,000 rounds each, two rocket launchers with 5 reloads, and 50 grenades. Plus storage for more ammunition. The heavy machineguns will have to be carried up to the platform and mounted to be used effectively.
There is also a communications suite and surveillance system, tied into the sensors in the tower and several cameras and motion sensors built around the bunker. It is also designed so that if any soldiers have cameras on their helmets, the feed can be sent to the bunker, which can relay it to any other command centers or orbiting ships. This allows a commander to see what is going on from the soldiers' point of view. The system also can send information to the soldiers, such as mission maps, updates to objects, anything else one would need to send or receive. Has thermal-optics, passive night vision, video cameras with telescopic zoom up to 500x (can pinpoint a rabbit at 6 miles).
There are two armoured doors, which one can be blocked by an armoured shutter to ease in defending the bunker. There are 6 windows, two on the long sides, one on either side of the doors, and one on the short ends. The windows are bullet proof, plus have armoured shutters which have a sealable gun port.
Has 75 hp and hardness 15, fully deployed has the following dimensions: 42 feet long, 25 feet wide, 18 feet high. Add another 20 feet to height when tower is raised.
Sensors adds a +4 equipment bonus to Search, Spot and Listen checks within 100 ft, and penalties to Search and Spot checks made while using the surveillance system are half.
Weight: 8.9 tons
PDC: 32
That large ,'and armored would probably be closer to30 tons including rations and water for 30-45 ( 2 fully loaded peclican another 15 in the passenger pod) for let's say a month I see that as the sHortest amount of time to drop something like that. Even at 30 tons it's well under a pelicans carry weight. But I do like your basic layout don't get me wrong.
Sadly you can't ambush the Pcs while there in that thing... You had to give it thermal gear. It's vulnerable to banshee and wraith attacks. Which is reasonable, would stop grunts though which would probably be its intended purpose, or protecting evacuation sites. What a fun toy.
There is food and water in the structure. 5 days worth for 10 soldiers, without strict rationing. And 10,000 rounds for each of the heavy machine guns, which are these, which since they are gatling style weapons and you use the minigun rules, use 100 rounds per autofire, which is all they do is autofire. that only gives them 100 rounds of combat. And in situations where this bunker might be used and can't get resupplied really quickly that 100 rounds gets used up pretty damn quick.
You can still ambush the bunkers, just gotta be craftier. Just because it has thermal vision, doesn't mean it's omni directional. It's tied to cameras, which a PC has to be actively looking at and searching. So if a PC got stuck on night duty, and desides to take 10 on all his searches, sure, he gets 10 plus his search/spot (which we'll say he has a +5 bonus for not), plus the equipment bonus. and if the targets are using covenant cloak, he gets a 10 take 10 +5 pc +4 equipment +10 bonus against covenant cloak for a total of 29. But what if the covenant rolls a total of 30? or 40? what if it's not using the cloak and using other methods like dark clothing, using camouflage? that PC's take 10 is only 19. Now the covenant force beat 19 a lot easier.
Just giving reasoning behind what I've done.
Now, as to the havoc for a failsafe.. I think a nuke would be definitely overkill for something this small. Since the computer system isn't powerful enough to contain an AI, but can contain info on jump coordinates but not necessarily, in the case of a breach, it'll have a failsafe which will quickly wipe all hard drives, like a mini emp to scramble and erase them, plus the power generator combined with a series of explosives at key locations would definitely blow it apart, plus spreading large deadly shrapnel in say.. 30 to 50 foot radius taking out any covenant close to it for say.. 4d6 or 5d6 slashing & fire damage?
A nuke would endanger any surviving soldiers that are still close to possible radiation or in a larger blast range. Plus nukes aren't cheap! Unless you can buy plutonium or uranium at your local radio shack XP
Class A AI is cortona (limited lifespan, but vastly superior to other AI)
Class B AI is like Da ja ( caretaker to the Spartan 2 s and primary educator)
Class C AI is like Wellmington small portable relTivally stupid in AI terms
From what you have posted your bunker would easily support a class C AI, though knowing ONI they would make a version to support a class A AI for espionage purposes, Btw class a are ship AIs. I agree 33 tons is a much more reaonoble weight.
Triumphant Return Cruiser
Valkyrie Frigate
A cruiser WIP
An ONI ship
And an ONI stealth ship is called a prowler. And where smaller then standard frigates.
XM234A
After much research and some explosive results, scientists finally managed to reverse engineer the Covenant plasma rifle. Although bulkier, shorter ranged and a smaller payload, it is a triumph of weapon engineering. Although it doesn't suffer quite the same heat problems as the covenant version, but does suffer from some. The XM234A also has a far safer heat dissipating system, although they weapon won't fire from 6 to 25 seconds as it dissipates the heat. It can also make use of a Spartan Laser recharge rack for replenishing the battery. Next generation plasma rifle will see better range and ammo capacity, and hopefully a fix to the heat problem, but only time will tell.
UNSC Plasma rifle
Damage 3d8 fire (energy)
Ammo: 30
Size: Large
Rate of fire: S, A
Range increment: 50ft
Weight: 15 lbs
Note: On a roll of 1 or 2 the weapon overheats and will not fire for 1d4 rounds as it safely dissipates heat and plasma in a far safer way, which also won't give away the user's position in the dark like the Covenant version. Can be recharged using a Spartan Laser recharge rack.
Oh on the subject of cool.. I've been giving moljiner (yes I spelled it wrong but bah its 3am) it was designed to be modular, so I'll cook up the base stats and we can go crazy on mods. I'll make the SPI armor separately. Also I'm working on a list of mods for spartan 1s,2s,and 3s. S far as augmentations, after I post them I'll welcome imput. So tomorrow then.
I never really played the games, so I can't remember the order of them.
The "engineers" have been maintaining forerunner stuff since the activation of the halo rings. That being said engineers are synthetic lifeforms, so the halo rings only affect organtic matter.
Here are the two homebrewed 70mm guns for the dropships so tell me which dice number seems appropriate for them... now to figure out how to handle the numerous numbers of rounds fired each successful attack... maybe roll a d10 and d100 together or just 2d10 for x-rounds fired and times that by the rolled damage...
70mm Autocannon {Hombrew}
Damage: 6d12, 3d20 or 4d20 High Explosive rounds
Type: Blast
Critical: 20
Range Increments: 300’
Rate of Fire: A
Notes: Automatic, Blast 108
70mm Rotary Cannon {Homebrew}
Damage: 6d12, 3d20 or 4d20 High Explosive rounds }
Type: Blast
Critical: 20
Range Increments: 300’
Rate of Fire: A
Notes: Automatic, Blast 108
Okay so I was trolling through wikipedia and thought search autocannons which then I went here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M242 and thought to tweak the info listed for ammunition a bit for use in my 70 mm homebrew as a base for the variant load types that kronos182 suggested along with what I listed prior
Also, as to the listed dice roll I gave for damage done do either of you feel that they are overpowered...
Here are the two homebrewed 70mm guns for the dropships so tell me which dice number seems appropriate for them... now to figure out how to handle the numerous numbers of rounds fired each successful attack... maybe roll a d10 and d100 together or just 2d10 for x-rounds fired and times that by the rolled damage...
70mm Autocannon {Hombrew}
Damage: 6d12, 3d20 or 4d20 High Explosive rounds
Type: Blast
Critical: 20
Range Increments: 300’
Rate of Fire: A
Notes: Automatic, Blast 108
70mm Rotary Cannon {Homebrew}
Damage: 6d12, 3d20 or 4d20 High Explosive rounds }
Type: Blast
Critical: 20
Range Increments: 300’
Rate of Fire: A
Notes: Automatic, Blast 108
Okay so I was trolling through wikipedia and thought search autocannons which then I went here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M242 and thought to tweak the info listed for ammunition a bit for use in my 70 mm homebrew as a base for the variant load types that kronos182 suggested along with what I listed prior
Also, as to the listed dice roll I gave for damage done do either of you feel that they are overpowered...
Well the damage you have lists it on par with RAW rail cannon.. which i suppose with the caliber and we assume better propellants. Although I would lower the high explosive a bit. Give it lower damage than the standard round, but a blast radius. Better for damaging multiple targets, which standard round and AT rounds for punching through armour, which may do less damage than standard round as well, but focused (5 to 10 ft blast radius) but ignores several points of hardness/dr.
So, if we made the straight slug 6d12, and we make HE say 4 or 5d12 or even a d10, but give it 30 to 50 ft blast radius, Reflex DC 16 to 19 for half damage. An AT or AP round would do maybe similar damage as the HE, but ignore say 10 to 20 hardness/dr (maybe say 15, 50% better than LAW). Then an HEAT would do damage between HE and AP with less ignore hardness/dr than AP round, but give blast radius of 10 to 15 ft Reflex say 14 to 17 for half maybe..
Now.. a APDS round we can give less damage than AP round, but higher ignore hardness/dr but also give it a range boost of say 25%.
I rounds (incendiary) we can be a little nasty with and give it a lower damage than HE rounds, about same blast radius, but make it deal damage over 1d4 rounds just to be jerks as the stuff just sticks and continues to burns.
Question.. what is the difference between the Autocannon and the Rotary cannon? besides the rotary is a gatling style? To me, you have same identical stats, the only big difference is space as the rotary would take up more space due to the motor and multiple barrels, plus it has a lesser rate of wear and tear on the barrels, but the size cuts back on ammo space and increase weight of the system while empty. What's the advantages of one vs the other?
Also, from what I remember which I will verify later is that an autocannon has/fires a 3 or 5 round burst everytime you attack so x3/5 for each round that strikes the target so dice damage times the 3 or 5 rounds but here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M242 states that it has a 200rnds per minute capacity
As to the rotary cannon, lets say the 70mm I made has three barrels in a triangular formation, well lets just say you could burn through your entire ammo supply quickly enough as each barrel cools before firing next
Also, are the ones fitted to a Pelican fixed mounted or Pintle mounted like on the Apache Attack Helicopter....
This would allow the user to select the right weapon for the mission. non rotary for precision anti-tank/ship work and rotary for gunship roles.
As for if it's stationary or turret mounted.. I have no idea. I think I might have seen a clip where a pelican was shooting at some covenant ground forces, but I can't remember if I'm think of another game or not, but looked like a fixed mount. I don't recall the halo wiki mentioning if it was fixed or not.
My friend and I want to play halo and we were wondering if you guys have a rule book or something?
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