Spinal Mounted Guns

[Puke]

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Originally posted by Seawolf:
Ok, if you are going to use stuff from other games please at least mention what system you are taking them from . I beleive the spinal mount is from Either Space Travler or Space opera.

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could have been, but by now its a universal term. i believe it was in travler, but it has also made apearances in some star wars material, and more recently in the popular game homeworld. spinal mount may have been coined by some classic of the 70s or 80s, but now its a common phrase used to universally convey a concept. at least to me anyway.

[Taqwus]

If by 'spinal mount' one means, generically, a massive gun that extends all through the vessel, then we might even have them now. I've heard the A-10 described as basically a flying, unusually large Gatling gun and seem to recall hearing that it's a VERY significant part of the fuselage...

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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

[Puke]

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Originally posted by Taqwus:
If by 'spinal mount' one means, generically, a massive gun that extends all through the vessel, then we might even have them now. I've heard the A-10 described as basically a flying, unusually large Gatling gun and seem to recall hearing that it's a VERY significant part of the fuselage...

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basically yes.. the A-10 was designed around that gun, even though i dont think it extends through. but that is the rough definition of spinal mount anyway, a ship being designed for no other purpose than to move a gun. basically thats what mobile howitzers are, and what tank hunters (panzerschrek) were in WWII. in SE4 one should have a tonnage multiplier such that nothing much else could fit on the hull. of course, doing this for anything but baseships would require a complete rewrite of the AI ship building files...

...UNLESS: in the mount text (whatever its called) you list them such that the spinal mount for each weight class is BEFORE the best mount the ship can support, OR simply list them all at the start of the file. wow, spinal mount mod, here I come! now where was that WMG sound file?

[Aussie Gamer]

I designed the gun being so big that it only fits into a baseship. I wanted it to be a big high tech gun that is used in the end game to toast planets.