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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MatrexsVigil" data-source="post: 1947708" data-attributes="member: 14259">Instruments of extreme death coming up!  Lightning Bombard This weapon looks like nothing so much as an elongated copper barrel mounted on a pair of squat wheels made of the same material.  These wheels are actually rotating drums that contain the ammunition of the bombard--electric energy.  When firing the bombard, its crew must indicate the target square and altitude band.  They then make a standard attack roll against Armor Class 15.  If the attack roll succeeds, the bombard lobs a blazing ball of lightning into the target square, completely filling it throughout the designated altitude band.  The blazing eletrical charge remains in place for 2d4 rounds, and detonates with hellish fury when anything enters or occupies the square it hits.  If the attack roll misses, however, the shot has deviated.  Treat this as if the bombard's shot were a grenade-like missle that missed its target.  Determine the direction of the miss as normal, but roll 1d4 to determine whethere the shot was high or low, roll 1d6--on a result of 1, the shot is one altitude band higher than intented, and on a result of 6, the shot hits an altitude band lower than intented.  The shot is at the same altitude as intented on any other result.  Because the lightning bombard is an indirect-fire weapon, targets recieve no cover from other airships or other obstructions when targeted by an electrical bombard.  This is because the shot of a lightning bombard is not fired straight ahead and may arc over obstacles.  Concelament penalties still apply however.    Razor Launcher The weapon works by launching a spinning, toothed, metal disk at the target.  When the disk strikes the enemy vessle, it rips into the structure, inflicting a great deal of damage.  The razor launcher is constructed of two narrow metal forks attacked to a heavy weight.  The weight hands over the side of the airship and is raised to load the weapon.  With the forks now facing inward, the cew loads in a razor-sharp metal disk, so that it sits, vertically, in the track created by th twin forks.  To launch the razor, the crew rotates the weapon, then relesases the weight.  This sends the weight down and the forks up and over--the disk is thus launched out of its track into the enemy airship.  -P.C.</blockquote>

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