WHIFs found at HyperScale

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice finish on this one, too.

[PR19_Kit]

That must have either a zonking big engine or an equally zonking big dozer blade on the back, as when they fire the Gatling thingie the recoil forces are going to be HUMUNGUOUS! 

[NARSES2]

Nice finish on this one, too.

It is, excellent build

[kerick]

You would have to follow that with a freight train just to supply the ammunition! 

[Weaver]

Wow - that would introduce a whole new category of armour piercing principle:

HEAT = High Explosive Anti-Tank
KE = Kintetic Energy
CE = Cumulative Erosion




BTW, the figure is Barrio Guy from Industria Mechanika: http://industriamechanika.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4_11&products_id=10

[scooter]

Hmm...a Ferdinand equipped with an 8.8 cm gatling gun, with armored ammo trailer.  ::ponders::  Definitely need a better power pack.

[zenrat]

Now i'm thinking about gatling howitzers or mortars...

[Captain Canada]

Oh yeah now that is cool ! Imagine the sound of it going off !

[Go4fun]

"Sir! We fired 100 rounds from our gattling howitzer. Now we need someone to help upbury it from all the expended shells"!

[Mr.Creak]

Wow - that would introduce a whole new category of armour piercing principle:
HEAT = High Explosive Anti-Tank
KE = Kintetic Energy
CE = Cumulative Erosion

Nah, been done.
The ARES 75mm weapon on the original RDF-LT was intended to do just that (but they used the slightly more technical term "Strip-Kill").
40 rounds a minute of very high velocity 75mm AP ammo impacting you is not conducive to survival...

[Steel Penguin]

the high tec versions will use an anti matter tip, ( traveller RPG idea)  you get the erosive effect, a goodly chunk of hard radiation, and lots of pretty lights.

[Weaver]

the high tec versions will use an anti matter tip, ( traveller RPG idea)  you get the erosive effect, a goodly chunk of hard radiation, and lots of pretty lights.

Aha - knew I'd seen a whacking great autocannon somewhere - cheers!

IIRC, the vehicle and weapon design rules in Striker set no upper limit on autocannon sizes, and there was a sample scenario which featured a grav vehicle with an 80mm three-barrelled autocannon firing the kind of exotic rounds as you suggest.

No sure what the latest versions allow, but in those days there were things like collapsing Californium rounds that made a critical mass when the round hit the target hard enough to force the two sub-crits together. Miss and hit the ground? Nothing happens. Hit a tank? BOOM squared.....

I always thought they missed a trick there: they should have called it NEAT : Nuclear Explosive Anti-Tank....   

[Steel Penguin]

NEAT   now that I like ( file away for later)

[kitnut617]

It looks kinda neat, but then I'm thinking, a 15 second burst of fire  --- then what ---

[rickshaw]

the high tec versions will use an anti matter tip, ( traveller RPG idea)  you get the erosive effect, a goodly chunk of hard radiation, and lots of pretty lights.

Funnily enough, one of the side effects of firing AP (of various flavours) at a steel target is indeed a flash of light, as the kinetic energy is converted instantaneously to heat and light (simply conservation of energy).  It's like someone flashing a spot light at you.  Very interesting to observe and very visible even in broad daylight.