CT: Striker Direct FC and CPR Direct Fire Ranges

[snrdg082102]

Hello all,

I seem to be having trouble with the Striker site at yahoo groups so I'll com here to ask my questions.

Striker Book 3 Design Sequence 2: CPR Guns K. Direct Fire Range page 14 states:

"Direct fire range depends on the type and tech level of the weapon and on the type of round being used. However, no direct fire range may exceed the capability of the weapon's direct fire control system. The direct fire range table lists the ranges of various weapons and rounds."

I believe the tables in question are the CPR Direct Fire Range Table is on page 8 and the Direct FC Table is on page 12 Design Sequence Tables booklet.

The Direct FC Table lists the ranges in kilometers and the CPR Direct Fire Range Table, per Consolidated CT Errata page 48 Page 8, CPR Direct Fire Range Table (omission): Ranges on the CPR direct fire range table are in cm.

To ensure that the direct fire range does not exceed the fire control system capability I think there is a need to convert one or both tables range units. From

From Striker Book 1 page 4:

"B. Distance: One millimeter equals 1 meter; one centimeter equals ten meters."

I'm keeping this simple with just the basics.

Direct FC system TL 9 effective range equals 2.5 kilometers or 2,500 meters and the CPR Direct Fire Range Table has the TL 9 effective range as 100 cm (if Book 1 is used) or 1,000 meters.

This makes the CPR direct fire range is within the Direct FC system range, right?

 

[sabredog]

Yes, you are correct.

Direct FC is a limiting factor for direct fire so even though you can design weapons of all kinds that will eventually exceed the Direct FC ranges, the idea is that just because you can shoot a round out 10 miles doesn't mean you can target that far. You just break it down to the eff/llng/ext ranges as allowed by the FC distances.

You will often, especially with energy weapons and rail guns design weapons whose capabilities are far beyond those of the fire control systems for direct fire at all tech levels. But that's the way it is even today.

 

[snrdg082102]

Evening Sabredog

Yes, you are correct.

Direct FC is a limiting factor for direct fire so even though you can design weapons of all kinds that will eventually exceed the Direct FC ranges, the idea is that just because you can shoot a round out 10 miles doesn't mean you can target that far. You just break it down to the eff/llng/ext ranges as allowed by the FC distances.

You will often, especially with energy weapons and rail guns design weapons whose capabilities are far beyond those of the fire control systems for direct fire at all tech levels. But that's the way it is even today.

Thanks for the reply and confirming that my theory actually worked out correctly.

Yes, I have succeed in being on the right track the first go, maybe my luck is changing.

Is that a new avatar?

 

[sabredog]

Yes it is. Its one I made that is the Terran Empire's Seal from my non-OTU universe. Once the Terran Confederation collapsed during the last war, the remnants reformed under the leadership of a coalition to form the Terran Empire and win the war behind the front-line leadership of the First Emperor.

So the new seal is a phoenix rising from the three stars representing the original worlds of the Freidland Coalition (Neuland, Somerheim, and Freidland), and the blue star above representing Earth.


So are you going to be playing Striker in a tabletop environment or just to supplement your campaign. I have done both but now just use the CT rules for the campaign and Striker for the heavy - "players can't touch" stuff. In case someday someone wants to play on the tabletop again. Striker's command and control is awesome, but the referee requirement made it a pain to allow myself to actually play since in my circles of players I tended to be the one who had bothered to read the rules beyond the hit tables.

 

[snrdg082102]

Evening again Sabredog,

Yes it is. Its one I made that is the Terran Empire's Seal from my non-OTU universe. Once the Terran Confederation collapsed during the last war, the remnants reformed under the leadership of a coalition to form the Terran Empire and win the war behind the front-line leadership of the First Emperor.

So the new seal is a phoenix rising from the three stars representing the original worlds of the Freidland Coalition (Neuland, Somerheim, and Freidland), and the blue star above representing Earth.

I like the look and thanks for the brief insight to your TU.

So are you going to be playing Striker in a tabletop environment or just to supplement your campaign. I have done both but now just use the CT rules for the campaign and Striker for the heavy - "players can't touch" stuff. In case someday someone wants to play on the tabletop again. Striker's command and control is awesome, but the referee requirement made it a pain to allow myself to actually play since in my circles of players I tended to be the one who had bothered to read the rules beyond the hit tables.

Neither, a question came up about the MT: COACC gun pods and I decided to see what happens when I used Striker to design one of them.

A quick glance at the tables seems to indicate that the numbers might be close. Unfortunately, I barely got started on creating a spreadsheet for Striker, which doesn't cover either CPR guns or autocannons.

Thanks again for the help.

 

[Icosahedron]

I was on the Striker Yahoo Group for a while (still am, I suppose) but a lot of the conversation there became centred on a proposed new ruleset called Striker 3, and after Traveller became the exclusive domain of Mongoose, the project collapsed and pretty much took the group with it.

I haven't been there for a while, largely because others faded away and there was nothing happening. It's a bit of a Mongoose ghost town, I'm afraid.

There should be a Striker Spreadsheet in the Files section over there though. It's pretty much the Striker Spreadsheet.
There are some errors in it, unfortunately. A few of us were correcting them as we found them, but again, it all fell apart when the group faded.

 

[snrdg082102]

Afternoon Icosahedron,

Thanks for responding and letting me know that I'm visiting a ghost town. I was pointed to ct-striker by Donald McKinney after posting my original chemical round post asking about the cost on ct-starships.

I didn't even know that there was a project for striker either.

Have a good one.

I was on the Striker Yahoo Group for a while (still am, I suppose) but a lot of the conversation there became centred on a proposed new ruleset called Striker 3, and after Traveller became the exclusive domain of Mongoose, the project collapsed and pretty much took the group with it.

I haven't been there for a while, largely because others faded away and there was nothing happening. It's a bit of a Mongoose ghost town, I'm afraid.

There should be a Striker Spreadsheet in the Files section over there though. It's pretty much the Striker Spreadsheet.
There are some errors in it, unfortunately. A few of us were correcting them as we found them, but again, it all fell apart when the group faded.

 

[Icosahedron]

Alas, with many of these groups there can be a runaway effect (in both senses of the word). When the key posters stop posting, others stop too, and before you know it, everyone's gone. We've had a couple of hairy moments even here.

I dare say if a large handful of Striker enthusiasts started posting on that site, it could revive - as I said, AFAIK it's not officially closed, and there are probably several users still visiting, but you might have to wait a while until someone drops in to see your post.

Hey, since I haven't been for a while, it could already be a raving party of Striker goodness again, but your post leads me to suspect not.

Of course, doomsayers like me don't help the group - I'm just trying to help an individual.

 

[snrdg082102]

Morning Icosahedron,


With the design systems, CT, MT, TNE, T4, GT, T20, Mgt, BT, RL, JC, HG, Star Trek to mention a few, I bounce around to I don't notice when boards or forums aren't being visited much.


Thank you for the information.

Alas, with many of these groups there can be a runaway effect (in both senses of the word). When the key posters stop posting, others stop too, and before you know it, everyone's gone. We've had a couple of hairy moments even here.

I dare say if a large handful of Striker enthusiasts started posting on that site, it could revive - as I said, AFAIK it's not officially closed, and there are probably several users still visiting, but you might have to wait a while until someone drops in to see your post.

Hey, since I haven't been for a while, it could already be a raving party of Striker goodness again, but your post leads me to suspect not.

Of course, doomsayers like me don't help the group - I'm just trying to help an individual.