geekhound Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 Imagine an undersea earthquake in the Gulf of Mexico results in a tsunami condition approaching the North American coast. Imagine our intrepid heroes head out to the coast to do damage control. Imagine a Force Wall with megascale on it's length/width...and now imagine the water rising... How much damage would the wave do? How do you determine if the force wall is enough to withstand the wave? Would you use the weight of 1 hex of water (which is what exactly?) and have it do a move through against the force wall using the speed of the wave and an approximate strength based on the weight? How would you build a tidal wave? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yansuf Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 Re: Natural Disasters? Imagine an undersea earthquake in the Gulf of Mexico results in a tsunami condition approaching the North American coast. Imagine our intrepid heroes head out to the coast to do damage control. Imagine a Force Wall with megascale on it's length/width...and now imagine the water rising... How much damage would the wave do? How do you determine if the force wall is enough to withstand the wave? Would you use the weight of 1 hex of water (which is what exactly?) and have it do a move through against the force wall using the speed of the wave and an approximate strength based on the weight? How would you build a tidal wave? I wouldn't. The power of a tsunami is so great that I would not try and "spec" it with the rules, anymore than I would try to figure how many dice for a 20 MT thermonuclear weapon. I'ld wing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawksmoorSD Posted September 23, 2009 Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 Re: Natural Disasters? In the Champions setting book they list Tidal Waves under the Superhero Environment chapter. All you need to do is determine how fast you think the water is moving and how much impact it will have when it hits. Aside from that if its wiping out the Florida coast they're going to need a huge force wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted September 23, 2009 Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 Re: Natural Disasters? Imagine an undersea earthquake in the Gulf of Mexico results in a tsunami condition approaching the North American coast. Imagine our intrepid heroes head out to the coast to do damage control. Imagine a Force Wall with megascale on it's length/width...and now imagine the water rising... How much damage would the wave do? How do you determine if the force wall is enough to withstand the wave? Would you use the weight of 1 hex of water (which is what exactly?) and have it do a move through against the force wall using the speed of the wave and an approximate strength based on the weight? How would you build a tidal wave? Tsunami vary in speed and therefore power according to how shallow the water is leading up to the land and how close the earthquake was. However any tsunami worthy of the name will do enough damage to obliterate a timber wall on the sea shore. A strong tsunami will shatter concrete walls. So you should make your forcewall at least as strong as reinforced concrete walls to do much good against a disaster of this scope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balabanto Posted September 23, 2009 Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 Re: Natural Disasters? My advice is look at the Living In a Dangerous World rules (6e2, 147), and make some appropriate judgements based on the effects of other unpleasant naturally occurring things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geekhound Posted September 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2009 Re: Natural Disasters? Sorry for the delayed response, but thank you for your comments! I appreciate them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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