Talk:Extended Range Medium Laser

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Comment on balance

Same range, similar damage, colder than, and 1/5th the weight of an IS large laser? Battletech is not a balanced game by any measure, regardless of the cost difference.— The preceding unsigned comment was posted by 216.211.14.58 (talk • contribs) .

Game balance is not really a wiki issue though, if anything I am purposefully trying to steer the wiki away from having anything to do with rules at all. It is kinda hard to rephrase stats and rules, and to directly copy the text is Plagiarism--Dmon (talk) 10:44, 19 June 2020 (EDT)

Why are we breaking out individual models of lasers from the table?

Just curious to know why we're breaking up a large table into several smaller ones. Is it to take advantage of redirection or something?--Mbear^(talk) 10:07, 27 September 2019 (EDT)

That and to begin to include fluff details like lens sizes, beam colors and unreliability of specific models of weapon. The process is a slow one but the Medium Laser is currently further along as to what I want to include.--Dmon (talk) 10:24, 27 September 2019 (EDT)

OK. That all seems like stuff we could put in another table column headed "Notes"; Something like this:

Brand	Planet	Company	Used by	References	Notes
Magna Mk VI	Lopez	Magna		{{cn}}	3 cm beam; blue
Magna Mk VI	Stewart	Corean Enterprises		{{cn}}
Bright-Bloom	New Avalon Wernke	Achernar BattleMechs Kallon Industries	???	{{cn}}	invisible to naked eye
Ceres Arms	Capella/St. Ives	Ceres Metals Industries	???	{{cn}}
ExoStar Pinnacle (Clantech)	Unknown	ExoStar Laser Technologies	UCU-F4 Scarecrow
Martell	El Dorado	General Motors	BLR-2D Warlord
SCI
Series 7J	Tamaron	Ashton 'Mech Production Complex	???	{{cn}}
Series J7A	Arcadia	Arcadia BattleMech Plant CM-T4	???	{{cn}}
General Systems	Huntress	Abysmal Manufacturing Complex	???	{{cn}}

This table has the Magna Mk whatever span ID around it, so maybe that will work. This way we get the advantage of the table layout and still provide fluff details.--Mbear^(talk) 10:38, 27 September 2019 (EDT)

I am specifically trying not to put such info into tables as the weapons articles are already very number and rules heavy compared to the rest of the wiki. I want to try and encourage fluff to be written as you can buy a copy of the rules pretty easily if you want hard numbers.--Dmon (talk) 11:15, 27 September 2019 (EDT)

OK. That's fair. I just find all the tables redundant, but I'm willing to go along. --Mbear^(talk) 11:03, 10 October 2019 (EDT)

Technical Readout: 3145 Federated Suns, p. 34-35, "UCU-F4 Scarecrow"

Technical Readout: 3075, p. 88, "BLR-2D Warlord"

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