On 18Jul2020 0209, Thomas RUX wrote:

> Morning from WA. all,
>
> First I want to thank everyone who took the time to reply to my topic.
> Next, is my apologies for not keeping up with the discussion.
>
> Finally, I want to mention that I do no think that MT Referee's Manual
> CPR guns and other non-starship weapons used CT Striker Book 3 as part
> of their design.
>
> In CT Striker Book 3 I was able to match the price, volume, and mass
> of the example for a medium velocity gun. The ammunition I was able to
> match the mass, volume, and cost of example of a CBM round and the
> specifications for all of the listed rounds.
>
> MT Referee's Manual does not have a medium velocity gun so I went with
> a TL 9 10 cm low velocity (howitzer) gun. My volume and weight in CT
> Striker Book 3 matched what is listed in MT. A CT Striker 10 cm
> howitzer's price and ROF is half that of the one in MT. In  MT the
> vehicle set-up time is 60 seconds while in CT Striker I get 10 turns
> or 300 seconds.
>
> A CT Striker and MT HE round has the same volume, weight, and cost,
> unfortunately in CT Striker the TL penetration is 18 while the
> penetration in MT is 20. The reason for the penetration difference is
> that in CT Striker the bore sizes are 10, 11, 12 and counts down one
> for each two levels above TL 6. MT's bore size is 10, 12, 14 and
> counts down one for each two levels above TL 5.
>
> I'm checking to see if TNE FF&S was used instead.
TNE's FF&S post-dates MT by some years, and uses a whole different
design sequence for CPR guns (and a different scale for armour), so any
match is most likely coincidental.

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>