ehelmers

Re: Sky Captains P-40 Warhawk

It is definalty a P-40 Warhawk, with a lot of Pulp license. Basically the trainer with the second seat to acomodate Polly.

Re: Powerguns

*shrug* What about lasers and plasma guns doing the same thing? Neither ALIEN WARS and TERRAN EMPIRE address these issues, and for simplicities sake, neither did I. I presume you could add some sort of 1d6 RKA Explosion Linked to the main RKA with a limitation of "Requires Suitable Target," but that's getting into more detail than I can handle.

 

Sure. And most of that can be worked up from various published sources. Although the 250mm rocket howitzers do see to be in a class by themselves.

 

Interesting. I have a three book set of these stories as well, as I noted in my introduction. What makes this one so different?

Fair enough. Over complicating things usually never helps. I was just curious. I am new to the Hero system, and am really loving it.

The Night Shade books are harback, and there will be 2 editions of each of them: a standard hardback, and one limited edition signed by Drake, the into author and Vincent Di Fate who is doing the cover artwork. I believe the content will be the same as the latter Baen editions, which I also have in addition to the original Hammer's Slammers series.

Re: Powerguns

What about the explosive effects of hiding behind a tree that gets hit by a powergun bolt, superheating the sap and blowing up the tree?

Powerguns were not the only weapons used by the Slammers. They had other military munitions such as artillery, motars, etc.

Also Night Shade Books is going to print all the Hammer's Slammers stories in a three volume set.

Looks good to me, although you didn't add any limitations about the lack of penetrating power. In heavily wooded terrain, a powergun should be at a fairly large disadvantage compared to more primitive slugthrowers, as the slugthrowing riflemen could take cover behind almost any leafy bush, or even tall grass.

 

Which means the GM can throw the Slammer PCs into a "guaranteed win" situation against farmers with WWII era tech, and drive them totally insane.