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hobgoblin:
One thing i would love to see clarified is vehicle launch weapons.

Right now there is zero info about how hardpoints and vehicle launch weapons interact, if at all.

The military aircrafts only have hardpoints listed if they are already used for machineguns or similar, so they are useless as examples.

Basically, how many outlaws, iron bombs or similar can a boeing-federated eagle carry? 1 pr (non-existent) hardpoint? 10? 1000? And if 1, can one use something to expand that capacity (like say ammo bins)?

KarmaInferno:
Um. Arsenal has all the rules that apply.

Vehicular weapons, gun or launched, can be mounted on either Fixed Mounts or Heavy Turret Mounts. Either way since they are larger than LMGs they also need the Reinforced size.

They are otherwise treated like any other weapon.

Mostly launch weapons get mounted on Fixed Mounts. The Aguilar attack helicopter has for example two fixed mounts on the winglets fitted with rockets, in addition to its chin-mounted MG turret.



-k

hobgoblin:
Problem is that the helicopter uses 2 hail barrage rocket pods, not the launch weapons like outlaw or iron bomb.

As such, it is not a good example for how hardpoints and launch weapons interact. This because the hail barrage is basically a human scale rocket launcher with a bigger ammo capacity (it even uses the same ammo).

Chaemera:

--- Quote from:  Arsenal, pg. 123, Vehicle Weapons ---For details on how to install weapons on vehicles, see the Weapon Mount entry of the Gear and Vehicle Modification chapter (p. 126).
--- End quote ---


--- Quote from:  Arsenal, pg. 147, Weapon Mount (Standard) ---Size: The size of a weapon mount determines which weapons you can mount into it. A normal weapon mount can hold a firearm of up to LMG size, while a reinforced weapon mount can hold firearms larger than LMG size. As a general rule, one weapon mount can be added to a vehicle for every 3 points of Body it has, rounded up. One reinforced weapon mount counts as two normal weapon mounts. Each weapon mount can also hold up to 250 rounds of ammunition, if the weapon has a beltfeed loading mechanism. Weapons with other loading mechanisms or larger ammunition (rocket launchers, for example) are restricted to their standard amount of ammunition.
--- End quote ---

So, if it's bigger than an LMG (and a launch weapon is) you need a reinforced mount.

If the weapon isn't belt-fed, or uses particularly large ammo (the launch weapon is the ammo), you are restricted to the normal ammo (Weapon = Ammo = 1).

Therefore, each reinforced mount can hold one, and only one, launch weapon.

hobgoblin:
Making the eagle a joke as a multi-role fighter.

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