Can Worldbeaters beat the military?

[beauxdeigh]

The Hero board is dabbling with Necromancy!

And without so much as a

"By the Dark Powers, I summon thee..."

or

"Arise from the nether pages, foul thread..."

or even an

"Ancient Spirits of Eeevil, Transform this decayed thread, to THREAD-RA, the Ever LIVING AHAHAHAHAHA!"

Thread Necormancy has lost all of it's style, I tell you!

[Chuckg]

The future(20 years from now) direction of tank armament is likely to be a railgun of between 30 and 80 mm caliber, firing a solid slug at about 3-5 times the velocity of current tank rounds.

Heck, according to "Coils of the Serpent", VIPER has that already. As a tripod-mounted crew-served weapon.

I thought it was a bit of a falling down on the job that VIPER could reliably put a 10d6 RKA worth of railgun into a reliable and semi-portable infantry support weapon, but the primary armament on their main battle tank uses a lot more space and weight to deliver a lot less damage.

I mean, for an otherwise extremely well-written supplement, that was a mistake up there with Rifts Coalition War Campaign, which has N amount of damage for the "Boom Gun" (a 12-foot rail cannon carried by a very small mecha), and 1/4th N damage for the main gun on an MBT four times the mecha's size and ten times its mass.

[Metaphysician]

Maybe the Boomslang is a relatively new development, and hasn't been incorporated into the main heavy tank production design yet??

( except perhaps for single manually retrofitted units that your heroes might encounter. . . )

[Chuckg]

Maybe, but honestly, it would only take a few months. Did the Boomslang come out last week?

[Metaphysician]

IC, it would be a nasty surprise if it did.