House Rules for Missile Artilery

by Matt

Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 19:51:44 -0500 From: Matt To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Missile Artilery
At 12:27 PM on 11/20/96, Scott Herod wrote:
> Curious that this should come up.  I just made up some stuff for
> a ballistae on a small merchant vessel last night.  I required a
> crew of three (fewer or untrained people lengthen the reload time),
> and said that it takes three rounds to reload.  Range is twice
> heavy crossbow.  Damage is heavy crossbow times 2 with any crit
> coming from both crush and puncture.  Finally, the bolt may not
> be parried and shields provide no protection.
>
> I don't imagine that it will be fired more than once in what I intend
> to have happen.

Here would be my guesses:

Minimum # of normal people 2. (maybe give a total strength of the crew to be something like 40-50)

Rate of Fire: 5 rnds, reduced by 1 for each extra person/Strenth bonus, min 3

Range: Twice of Heavy Crossbow

Chart: Heavy Crossbow -20

Damage: 4x, all crits are Krush.

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