Retry
06/25/18 12:55 PM
174.70.184.145
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The Corean Farshot LRM missiles for infantry has the same weight as their BT equivalents and the standard infantry-scale SRM launcher missiles are explicitly fluffed to be identical to their 'Mech scale equivalents.
In CBT, the SRMs have ranges of 2/4/6, and the LRMs have ranges of 3/6/9, which is smaller than their vehicle-scale equivalents. Why is it abstracted that way?
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Karagin
06/25/18 01:16 PM
72.176.187.91
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Because it's a game about giant 30meter tall mechs blasting each other to bits?
Thing is Retry, FASA and all of the others who owned BT have no idea how to incorporate infantry into the game without it being so badly handled that folks ignore it, or folks use other game products for using infantry.
Karagin
Given time and plenty of paper, a philosopher can prove anything.
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wolf_lord_30
06/25/18 01:44 PM
74.214.54.153
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Maybe they were scaled down so infantry could use them. So they are the exact same, just a lot smaller. Like a model. And so the ranges were scaled down too...yeah, I'm not really buying it either, but it sounded like a good argument when I first wrote it down.
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Cray
06/25/18 05:23 PM
97.101.136.19
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Quote:
The Corean Farshot LRM missiles for infantry has the same weight as their BT equivalents and the standard infantry-scale SRM launcher missiles are explicitly fluffed to be identical to their 'Mech scale equivalents.
In CBT, the SRMs have ranges of 2/4/6, and the LRMs have ranges of 3/6/9, which is smaller than their vehicle-scale equivalents. Why is it abstracted that way?
In character: The missile coming out of the tube is identical to the missile coming out of a 'Mech's launcher, but the man-portable launcher is not identical to the 'Mech's launcher. That shoulder-fired launcher doesn't have tons of sensors, targeting systems, and aiming gear - you've got a shaky human carrying a big missile launcher.
Out of character: the idea is that since vehicular weapons tend to out range infantry weapons in RL, BT's infantry weapons are similarly nerfed.
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
Disclaimer: Anything stated in this post is unofficial and non-canon unless directly quoted from a published book. Random internet musings of a BattleTech writer are not canon.
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