Hi
Over this last week I've been trying to come up with an idea for what I think a Traveller style turret might look like. I realize that everyone probably has their own ideas of what they might look like in their games, but I thought I might post what I came up with here, in case anyone might be interested.
My main concern right now is Book 2 style adventurer type vessels. From those rules, and other stuff I've read posted on these boards, I've tried to put together something that I think might be a reasonable interpretation.
I decided to start with the barrel of the turret 1st and then figure out the rest of the turret from there.
From the Book 2 rules (if I am recalling correctly - I've left my books elsewhere right now) a single missile barrel in a turret can fire up to 3 missiles a turn. As such, at first I thought of something like this for a modern aircraft.
However, since I wanted something for a streamlined vessel, I thought that maybe a box launcher more along the lines of a modern RAM missile launcher, as shown below (but without three tubes) would work.
Since I saw in a post somewhere on these boards that a normal Traveller type missile is on the order of about 150mm in diameter (6 inches) by about 1m (39 inches) long, I sketched up notional barrel to accommodate three such missiles, as shown below.
Here the barrel is just a little over 1m long and has a cross section that's roughly a cropped triangle in cross section. It will be hinged about 2/3 to 3/4 of its length aft to allow it to elevate from at least 0 to 90 degrees, while its mounted on a common base with any other barrels in the turret that can rotate freely over 360 degrees.
Regards
PF
Over this last week I've been trying to come up with an idea for what I think a Traveller style turret might look like. I realize that everyone probably has their own ideas of what they might look like in their games, but I thought I might post what I came up with here, in case anyone might be interested.
My main concern right now is Book 2 style adventurer type vessels. From those rules, and other stuff I've read posted on these boards, I've tried to put together something that I think might be a reasonable interpretation.
I decided to start with the barrel of the turret 1st and then figure out the rest of the turret from there.
From the Book 2 rules (if I am recalling correctly - I've left my books elsewhere right now) a single missile barrel in a turret can fire up to 3 missiles a turn. As such, at first I thought of something like this for a modern aircraft.
![agm84d.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fas.org%2Fman%2Fdod-101%2Fsys%2Fsmart%2Fagm84d.jpg&hash=7a2200e39ea905f7b4a7989102686a3f)
However, since I wanted something for a streamlined vessel, I thought that maybe a box launcher more along the lines of a modern RAM missile launcher, as shown below (but without three tubes) would work.
![p111-a.gif](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fnavydata%2Fpolicy%2Fvision%2Fvis02%2Fp111-a.gif&hash=998602a3582dda2a4fcf3e5a2b12ea0e)
Since I saw in a post somewhere on these boards that a normal Traveller type missile is on the order of about 150mm in diameter (6 inches) by about 1m (39 inches) long, I sketched up notional barrel to accommodate three such missiles, as shown below.
![Missile%20Barrel2.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fmembers.cox.net%2Fpsjn%2FTrav%2FMissile%2520Barrel2.jpg&hash=c7d13677c6d95f0219711bb1ef963c14)
Here the barrel is just a little over 1m long and has a cross section that's roughly a cropped triangle in cross section. It will be hinged about 2/3 to 3/4 of its length aft to allow it to elevate from at least 0 to 90 degrees, while its mounted on a common base with any other barrels in the turret that can rotate freely over 360 degrees.
Regards
PF
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