Glupii Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Is there any place in any of the books that talks about stats for mid 1800's era smooth bore and rifled cannon stats? I have not be fortunate enough to locate this in any of the books. I see a few promising threads that MIGHT contain something like this but I do not have time at the moment to look though 100+ pages in many of these threads to find any mention of them and am hoping someone can recall a specific thread to narrow down my search. We are trying to figure out what some good stats would be for this weapon: http://civilwarwiki.net/wiki/1.5_inch_Hughes_Breechloading_Cannon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Re: Looking for stats on Civil War era Artillery pieces If there are any official rules, they're statted up as part of some of the ships in The Ultimate Vehicle and the vehicle guide (which I think is called "The Hero System Vehicle Guide"...it's been way too long since I've been able to play). Personally, I would put that particular weapon at 3d6 to 3d6+1 (my table lists 1.5" as 3d6 and 1-pdr as 3d6+1). I think the official damage ratings for a lot of artillery is less than I would rate it, but ships are also less sturdy than I would make them. Reload time is probably 2 Full Phases or so. Probably only needs two crew members for maximum rate of fire. I have a set of house rules about black powder weapons posted somewhere on the forums which cover firing artillery with less than full crew, double shot, ball and grape, etc, which may be of interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glupii Posted March 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Re: Looking for stats on Civil War era Artillery pieces OK I will try to look for posts by you and see if I can narrow that down. I would be very interested to see what you have. Thanks! This is great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Re: Looking for stats on Civil War era Artillery pieces http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php/28792-Early-Firearms?p=641655#post641655 Found it Oh yeah, I wrote all that up for 5th Edition, but I don't think 6th is so different that it'll matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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