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I have an odd idea. Have someone on the radio broadcasts that actually speaks in the interest of groups like the CS (even if it is just an act), to keep an appearance of not really taking sides (bi-partisan, or whatever the term is...) Hopefully CS and other 'pro-human' egos will easily eat up the p...

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If anything is going to be exploding, it is going to be my eyes after trying to read all of the posts in this thread in a single sitting. I have a few things I don't think were really mentioned. 1: Pebble Bed reactors. Using nuclear fuel in layers of special materials, it blocks the majority of radi...

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The CS is located in the middle of a land mass that once housed a great civilization. Hundreds of millions of vehicles, all sorts of cities... Just bring recycling into the mix. Who knows how many viable materials could be recycled from a major city that once housed millions of people. How much meta...

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There seems to be some grand misunderstandings and exagerations as to what Archie can do, and of other things. I'm just annoyed that he is, apparently, the only machine in the megaverse who's developed defenses against telemechanics. Despite the fact that a) there are more advanced societies otu the...

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I will say this regarding the scale of the game: one of the important concepts drilled into our heads during the explanation of the Golden Age of Man and the advent of Mega-Damage technology is that the individual soldier became as powerful as any tank. I would submit that there's something intrins...

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I would say that a GB could either fire, or dodge, not both. I would say that if the GB fires, it cannot dodge, period, not even auto-dodge, since the GB is busy being anchored with the thrusters firing while the shot is fired. I agree that the system likely retracts the pylons as fast as they deplo...

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Boys! Boys! Great discussion, but this thread is for errata. Valid though all opinions may be, the 1000 rounds is canon, so it is not an errata. Thanks. That's the problem, it is canon. It makes no sense at all (like the canon length of a Star Wars A-Wing, or of the damage of a 16in battleship gun ...

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One thing that bugs me is a lack of 'balance', at least from a shred of realism and common sense point of view. Compared to SDC weapons, the Boom Gun is actually balanced and sensible, both in range and damage. Vehicle weapons, on the other hand, seems to require absurd sizes to even compare to a Bo...

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A few things I want to point out. About bones. Bones are not made of balsa wood. Go watch a medical show that talks about obesity. See an 800 pound man 'walking' without every last bone in his body snapping or joints giving out on the spot... The human skeleton is actually fairly strong, and muscles...

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I agree that such systems should negate recoil, even if the BG does generate as much recoil as a 120mm cannon firing a 16 pound DU APFSDS round at mach 5. The ammo drum is apparently 'fixed' to the GB by the looks of assorted pics, and the fact the FQ reload teams don't carry ammo drums, they carry ...

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A full conversion borg isn't much more than a robot body with a human brain in it. The majority of the torso, and all of the limbs, are entirely artificial/mechanical/robotic... like a robot. A full conversion borg the same general size/weight as a robot should possess the same capacity for structua...

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There is a huge difference between those two. Why do you recommend it? Have you seen any flaw in the Rifts system? Adult great-horned wyrm can't even lift half is body-weight with his strength score in Rifts. More to the point - a 40' tall god with a supernatural strength of 60 and a 14' tall titan...

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At 45 MDC, that is a LOT of durability, considering it is a civilian vehicle with MDC materials. 45 MDC is 4500 SDC. Compare to an SDC tank, which only has 1200 SDC/12 MDC at best The typical SDC anti-tank weapon, which would only do 1D4x100-2D6x100 SDC (1D4 to 2D6 MD). Rifts is supposed to be a pos...

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Some good solutions already said My solution? Send them to Nightbane or Splicers... then see how powerful their munchkin really is That's just wrong... On the Nightbane side of things... Seeing how good a munchin is by having them tick off some 5ft 6in guy that might turn into a hulking, brutish, w...

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GB's thrusters and 'where' they aim. Aiming the gun down won't be a problem. Afaik, the recoil compensation thrusters adjust angle based on where the gun aims. Also, pylons are 'anti-sway' pylons according to the old tech diagrams, they only apparently are their for the GB to keep its footing/stabi...

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Crazy idea... Pycrete bullets... the ultimate in (painful) anti-vampire material? it's basically water mixed with wood pulp, and then frozen, it becomes hard as concrete... Just freeze it with a slivers of iron and silver in it (iron partly due to having something for EM fields of rail guns to grab)...

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LOL..... Batts is my name..I was pushing ' Wow' for the name game. My bad, I can see how that happened though. Batts Oops, my bad also, that's what I get for working on stuff when tired. I guess that means you now have a super human sanitation engineer and part time laborer/combat engineer named af...

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Batts B.A.T.T.S. Big Abominable Terrastrial Transport Specialist Name: Harold McDonald 26 years old, 5ft 4in, 110 pounds, sandy blonde hair, blue eyes, lean but well toned build. Sanitation Engineer (janitor): Level 7 Combat Engineer (right name? basically training with Army Corp of Engineers) Level...

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Cool! Thank you for that data R Ditto! I can wait for the rest of it! I still need to get stuff off of my old computer, but I found some of my old stuff on the forums. Golden Age Technology... post your ideas Second post in that thread. It is some of my slightly earlier work and not so early work, ...

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Don't count Triax out on this. Their technology is more than meets the eye. What did I say? I want to know, because knowing is half the battle. Great, now there are going to be public sevice announcements here now? Don't drag the US version of the UK's Action Force into this... (and don't go anywhe...

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Goodie, a creative exercise... Unfortunately, the only thing that comes to mind for the name is a bit on the dark side. I hope it isn't to dark... Warning: Long post (I need to remember the terms 'short' and 'simple' one of these days...) Slayer the Unkind. Human Mutant, Male. 5ft 9in, short brown h...

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Hmm... if a super is reistant to energy, or protected from tazers... How about something that uses something else to stun the target? Like a concusive or spread our force, like some sort of concusion based explosive or soft/bean bag like ammo for a large gun such as a shotgun or grenade launcher? Or...

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I would just like to point out that anyone having a copy of After The Bomb was already aware of this - and that book is HOW old? Still, neat stuff, but yeah, the problem may be that it's TOO flexible for some applications - you don't want something to necessarily stretch to like 3x it's normal leng...

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Check the Table of Contents of the RMB for "The Black Market". Likely to be called the same thing in RUE if that is what you have/use. In the RMB I have, it is right after the section with CS equipment/weapons/armor, and before the section with the non-CS equipment/weapons/armor. There is ...

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http://forums.palladium-megaverse.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=59899&hilit=boom+gun+1000 1000 rounds is canon. see linky above. I know, my search for old info on GBs came across this. http://forums.palladium-megaverse.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=68487 Mostly of interest in that thread, and one...

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This seems oddly familiar... IP has nothing to do with art. *snip* Looks like I get to quote my own posts... Long is not the only artist who does stuff relating to the GB Other artist draw the GB, it would be easy have one of them come up with new technical drawings. just get permission from Long to...

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Okay... 2in diameter and 7in long cartridges (based on the technical diagrams), each with 200 slugs that are possibly a quarter ounce each (estimated mass based on size of flechettes in technical diagrams), so 3+ pounds of slugs per cartridge... and it is not 100 rounds anymore, but now 1,000 of the...

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Could we see some stats on this monster R Ditto! I'd really like that! Even if you have to PM me with them. I'm very interested in them. I thought you had created other rounds for the GB. Maybe you could repost them here. And I know Kitsune has some variant rounds. The stuff is on an older computer...

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What if someone found the Proto type for the GB in some underground vault? That's partly an angle I was thinking of, of a GB prototype that got 'discarded', of a model that didn't even make it to production. Sort of like the YF-23 of the PA world. Used inspiration from some video slamming the M1 Ab...

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On a side note, I don't even own RUE. After SoT, hearing that they 'tossed out' and replaced some of the stuff for the GB was a final straw for me, I stuck with the original RMB... besides, it makes me wary that RUE has such a large errata list... The way I feel is probably the same as W40k players...

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I need to dig out my old "dark man" GB variant, see if I can make a 'legendary' GB out of it. Superior to a GB in many ways, and cheaper and easier to make... just to get tossed aside, likely because it involved more than "aim, shoot, kill target in brutal way" that the whiz kids...

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A lot of detail went into making 3 full pages of highly detailed drawings and crossections of the GB and its components in the old RMB. If it was not accurate, they would have not been put in there in the first place, or else it would have been 'edited'. Chances are, Kevin is the one who developed a...

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Apparently some info got burried/ignored due to some huge posts. Some quick points of the 'majority' stats. Muzzle Velocity: Mach 5. Only the old RMB, and my 1993 copy of MiO, lists it as Mach 2. Everything else is mach 5, which makes perfect sense. Ammo Capacity: 100. Old RMB, Mutants in Orbit, Fre...

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Goats making the base for spider silk? I heard about something similar before, a lab forced the resulting specialized protien 'mix' through a die with lots of very tiny holes (like a pasta machine?) to 'replicate' the effect of a spider's spinnerettes, forcing the liquid out of the solids, so the so...

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I can think of reasons to avoid big weapons. Overpenetration. Lower power rounds, like from SMGs and pistols, lack any serious penetration. Stuff like assault rifles use rounds made to punch through stuff, be it walls, car doors, not so durable predators, etc. This can result in bullet fragments, or...

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Arkham Horror is apparently based on the setting/background for Call of Cthulhu. A friend used to own the Arkham Horror game, and one of the expansions was called The King in Yellow. What you mentioned in your hook, line and sinker was pretty much the same basis, except in Arkham Horror the play st...

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IIRC from old estimates, and based on the old RMB drawings, a GB's BG cartridge is 7in long, which makes it roughly 2in/50mm wide based on the pictures. Also, old estimates (from Shiva iirc) put the estimated mass of the projectiles at around 3.5 pounds. The 'slugs' themselves are apparently an inch...

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I would call fowl on the bird brained humor, but this thread has really quacked me up.

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Those LRM type nukes aren't even tactical, they are sub-tactical. (although someone has probably already mentioned that point) Since stuff like radioactive isotopes aren't available at the locak Quikie Mart, I would have to lean towards the possibility that many of the 'nukes' in Rifts are fusion ba...

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Interesting topic. PW drives are good, but sometimes to much speed is not a good thing. Most of the AUGG FTL drives are just STL drives that technically couldn't get anywhere close to the speed of light. The Tachyon, Negative Matter, Hypergravitics and Cruise Mode/TLT make sense for FTL drives, and ...

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Hmm...
Do I sense an Arkham Horror fan/player?
Or is this from the setting Arkham Horror is basically based on?

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Robot vehicles? Elaborate as I've never encountered such a thing Given that robots don't actually need pilots, I'd say it's safe to assume that when you recieve a skill that says, "pilot: robots and powered armour", as well as a skill for the powered armour MOS entitled, " Robot Comb...

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Using such high explosive would apparently have an effect akin to having a rail gun that fires in all directions. This is not something you would use for anti-personal, it is extreme overkill. Fragmentation mines, even way back WWII, were down right deadly. This includes the good old 'bouncing betty...

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Yeah... Apparently, what Wayne Breaux Jr. wrote, and what ended up in the AUGG ship building rules, do not match... I used to work on a little project of sorts to tweak the module system to a flat 1:1 ratio setup. (I think much of what I had mentioned in the past ended up on the Robotech board due t...

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Nice idea, but some problems. First. Brilliant Pebbles is a semi smart nuclear missile, and not simply an unguided kinetic kill weapon and not a normal sat. Second. It makes no sense to apply ship stuff to satellites. Not to mention I doubt a sat is going to be able to handle high speeds, let alone ...

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I can see the GB having 'dual' triggers, sort of like on a jet fighter, one that is operated by the trigger finger, one operated by the thumb. Thumb trigger pressed 'arms' the recoil compensation system (a 'safety' trigger of sorts), pulling the main trigger activates the pylons, fires the jets and ...

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Why is it my Aftermath book says he has access to a communications satellite that is not actually his , yet everyone else seems to be saying along the lines thathe owns his own spy sat or some such thing? Did I miss something somewhere? I am now so confused. IIRC, Aftermath basically said that Archi...

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I would like to point out that, for the record, The Landmaster wasn't a vehicle I'd use for anything save laughing at. It's an armored ATV RV with with segmented middle for extra turning capacity and it has guns and rockets! The Stripes RV can't bend in the middle, and it looks... to colorful and s...

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Hmm... lack of sleep, + sugar, =... Sneak Kenders aboard. Kender "Oooo! Pretty!" *yanks shiny crystal from a random slot* Computer "Warning, power flow regulator 1895-Beta 9 Delta in Junction Sigma 3412 Omicron 4 has been removed." Mechanoid Overlord "Wait, don't we run powe...

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Odd math. 1 LRM can hold 4 MRMs. 1 MRM can hold 4 SRMs. So, if an SRM could hold MMs, would it hold 4 MMs? That's 64 MMs right there... (1 LRM fires off 4 MRMs wich fire off 16 SRMs which fire off 64 MMs...) But simply cramming nothing but MMs in an LRM? I would have to say upwards of 128-256 MMs......

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