Designators and Projectors
- Thread starter Epee
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What is the difference? It would seem, at least using current military parlance, that a designator is a form of sighting apperatus for another weapon or weapon system. Yet, Traveller has the designator inflicting damage.
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Laser designators in GunMaker are apparently quite powerful
Marc commented on this as well, but he didn't change things. Maybe that would make a good errata item?EVEN BETTER - perhaps a suggestion for descriptive text for Designators: they're "dialable" to where they range from "mere" designators to actual weapons.
mike wightman
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You mean like the laser carbine being carried by the infantryman in the illustration in LBB4 Mercenary...
Careful- you're applying common sense there, it may bite you...
This is a pretty straightforward explanation though, and resolves the issue nicely.
Occams razor.
mike wightman
SOC-14 10K
From the text accompanying the picture:
So it is already canon and has been since 1978.
So it is already canon and has been since 1978.
That's a good point.
To me, though, it would seem that just using the carbine should do the trick. Why have a separate designator category? Although laser designators do appear to be rather bulky, so maybe they fill a different niche.
Items that were specifically designators could be handy, but why use a separate laser designator when a weapon can be dialled down to be used as one?
Too, at higher TLs they'd use better alternatives than trying to paint the target with a laser: visual sighting handoff, or some other system that identified the target in an area and tracks it prior to an attack. Inertial, or higher-platform driven, take your pick.
I noticed the laser designator and assumed that it was a round-about way of indicating that it was a laser rifle/carbine performing, "other duties as assigned" while still maintaining the "builder" format. I suppose other forms of designators would suit aliens with different primary senses while others would be the equivalent of police "non-lethal" riot guns like stink-guns, pepper guns and dye markers; although these could easily fall into the projector class also.
Where I have trouble with it is, as I said, a designator, to me, is a form of sight while a projector, like a "heat" or flame-projector is a weapon.
Where I have trouble with it is, as I said, a designator, to me, is a form of sight while a projector, like a "heat" or flame-projector is a weapon.
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