Using Ep.s with Book2

[Spinward Flow]

On a side tangent, pulse lasers do more damage but are less likely to hit, right ?

In LBB5.80, Pulse Lasers have a -2 DM on damage rolls (meaning they inflict more/heavier damage due to the way the damage tables are set up). However, Pulse Lasers increase their code factor more slowly than Beam Lasers (3x Pulse Laser = code 2 while 3x Beam Laser = code 3, for example).
30x Pulse Lasers = code 6
30x Beam Lasers = code 8
Higher code factors have improved chances to hit, penetrate defenses (sandcasters) and inflict automatic critical hits on ship hulls under the code factor of the weapon.
Pulse Lasers are therefore often times "less accurate but more damaging" in the LBB5.80 combat paradigm.

LBB2 combat uses a different system to differentiate Pulse Lasers from Beam Lasers.

Prospecting in asteroid/planetoid belts requires use of a Pulse Laser rather than a Beam Laser for carefully controlled mining, surveys and exploration, since the Beam Laser cannot be "fine tuned" enough for the delicate work needed by (most) Belters.

 

[mike wightman]

Pulse lasers in LBB:2 are -1 to hit but roll damage twice.

 

[infojunky]

Pulse lasers in LBB:2 are -1 to hit but roll damage twice.

Heh, I renamed pulse lasers, they are now railguns.

 

[aramis]

Heh, I renamed pulse lasers, they are now railguns.

Railguns wouldn't have the speed to function at those ranges in those times and those odds.

 

[infojunky]

Railguns wouldn't have the speed to function at those ranges in those times and those odds.

Heck lasers have hard time working at that range…

 

[aramis]

Heck lasers have hard time working at that range…

True, but they at least have the needed accuracy, and don't count as an additional drive system... (they lack the needed collimation to maintain damaging focus, but they can hit.
Further, lasers don't leave near as many bits in chaotic orbits...

 

[Spinward Flow]

Further, lasers don't leave near as many bits in chaotic orbits...

True.
Hit or miss, it doesn't take all that many shots from a railgun to "junk up" an orbit as a continuing hazard to navigation ...

 

[infojunky]

True.
Hit or miss, it doesn't take all that many shots from a railgun to "junk up" an orbit as a continuing hazard to navigation ...

Heck all former battlefields are hazardous.

 

[Condottiere]

Which is why you fight wars in someone else's backyard.

They're still digging up unexploded ordnances in German, and I think on occasion, English, cities.

 

[infojunky]

Which is why you fight wars in someone else's backyard.

They're still digging up unexploded ordnances in German, and I think on occasion, English, cities.

Heck, they are still finding stuff from WW1 in Belgium and France.

 

[aramis]

Heck, they are still finding stuff from WW1 in Belgium and France.

Last casualties from WW II were killed by a Japanese Balloon Bomb in the 1990's.

 

[bookwyrm]

where? all I could find doing a search, were the 6 in Oregon in 1945.

 

[aramis]

where? all I could find doing a search, were the 6 in Oregon in 1945.

ISTR Washington, but the article was pre-internet in a dead tree pub.

 

[bookwyrm]

thanks. sometimes, it's hard to remember a time before computers and the internet.

 

[aramis]

thanks. sometimes, it's hard to remember a time before computers and the internet.

Well, just remember: The ARPANet dates to 1969, and home computers to 1974... ARPANet, plus UUCPNet and FidoNet comprised the nascent internet. I've been on the internet (thanks to friends with UUCPNet feeds) since the late 1980's. And have had a computer in home since 1982. (Not that a TS1000 is useful...)
In 1976, the average person may not have been in the same room as a computer, but my elementary school has an Apple II (not even II+) connected to a huge scantron reader and a printer for handling attendance. And 4 of them in the library. (Mostly used to reward kids on IEPs for work completion.)

Heck all former battlefields are hazardous.

Not to the levels that an orbital one is.

Lookup Kessler Syndrome. And then realize that a typical sat is under 5 Td...