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« on: December 19, 2009, 03:43:19 PM »
Hello,

The BSG book says that vipers can carry nukes.  We know raptors can carry nukes.  We know Galactica carried a few nukes.

The cylons hit Galactica with Nukes (and the old Girl survived).

What are the stats for Nukes?  I realize that their are probably several kinds of nukes, but has anyone put anything together?  I'm especially looking for the cylons-shoot-at-Galactica or the Raptors/Vipers-shoot-at-cylons tactical scale nukes, but anything would be great.

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« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2009, 04:33:20 PM »
I have attached the home rules I used for space weapons in BSG.
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« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2009, 04:39:37 PM »
Quote from: Skygalleons on December 19, 2009, 04:33:20 PM
I have attached the home rules I used for space weapons in BSG.

Thanks!  I assume those are spacecraft scale wound/stun damage?
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« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2009, 05:02:48 PM »
Quote from: SoCalGamer on December 19, 2009, 04:39:37 PM
Thanks!  I assume those are spacecraft scale wound/stun damage?

You are welcome and yes all damage, except where otherwise noted, is in Spacecraft scale.
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« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2009, 07:02:35 PM »
Looks very workable!
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« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2009, 12:39:27 PM »
Quote from: blackcampbell on December 19, 2009, 07:02:35 PM
Looks very workable!

High praise indeed.  Smiley
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« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2010, 03:46:08 PM »
Cheers for the data. I prefer to use nukes as windowdressing. You know, threaten fleets with them rather than actually use them. Still, its good to have some rules.

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« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2010, 04:06:46 PM »
In one of my serenity game a player went out like a hero by staying behind to set of a abandoned alliance cruisers self destruct nuke to take out the fast approaching reaver fleet and save a hole planet from them while the rest of the crew heroically run away Shocked).

His last line as he beat it with a hammer was go off god'dam ya'all to hell.

BOOM ...exit one reaver fleet sage right.

He then asked me how much damage he took , maybe he survived !

I told him to pick up every die on the table and role it .....twice.
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« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2010, 02:07:42 PM »
What about tactical Low yield nukes in ground engagements
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« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2010, 02:41:37 PM »
Quote from: Pendraig on March 16, 2010, 02:07:42 PM
What about tactical Low yield nukes in ground engagements

Depends on how low yield you are talking - for something like the Davy Crockett 120mm, which was sub-kiloton, so probably around 5d6 vehicle scale (or 5d6x10 personal scale - average damage would be around...150 damage to a person at ground zero...).  Pretty much I'd treat them a vehicle-scale grenades, range and damage scaled appropriately.
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« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2010, 02:48:58 PM »
I think I'm way too off-the-cuff for this discussion. Hubby asked me one time how much damage I thought a nuke should do and I said, "Dude. It's a nuke. That's how much."

He stat'd it up anyway but I still think I'm right.  Cheesy
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« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2010, 02:55:42 PM »
Quote from: MaryContrary on March 16, 2010, 02:48:58 PM
I think I'm way too off-the-cuff for this discussion. Hubby asked me one time how much damage I thought a nuke should do and I said, "Dude. It's a nuke. That's how much."

He stat'd it up anyway but I still think I'm right.  Cheesy
This.

Although BSG took them pretty lightly :|
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« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2010, 03:49:54 PM »
a .1 or .2 Kton tactical nuke would be very effective in many of the scenario situations. Pocket Atomics are cool.
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« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2010, 03:54:08 PM »
I went on and continued the chart down to 1 kiloton tactical weapons. The numbers get pretty small on the lower end of the scale with a 1 kt nuke only doing d2W in an atmosphere, but if you remember this is spacecraft-scale, that is 100 to 200 points of character-scale damage, I think that's more than enough to take care of any Cylons or Colonial infantry that you would use one of these on. I had to modify the blast radius a bit, so you can call the file attached v2.0
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