Towed guns for Alpha Strike

[worktroll]

Okay, it's possible to have field gun platoons - even though the MUL only lists one option using what I think must be AC-10s here[/url, and one field artillery platoon [url=http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/2131/mechanized-field-artillery-71st-mechanized-field-artillery-2nd-sword-of-light]here.

But I got to thinking ... most Real World^TM artillery is towed, not intrinsic to platoons. Yes, I know, bringing real life to a BT fight ... but I figured it should be possible to come up with towed guns using the Trailer rules. This way, the unit represents a single gun, with minimum required crew, on a basic wheeled chassis. I gave it 1 ton of armour representing gun shields for the autocannons, and a ton of ammo.

So I got the following:

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Points Type Size TMM Move Attack OV A/S Specials
Towed AC-2 Wheeled Sniper 1 0 0"w 0*/0*/0* 0 1/1 AC0*/0*/0*, CAR9
Towed AC-5 Wheeled Sniper 1 0 0"w 1/1/1 0 1/1 AC1/1/1, CAR12
Towed AC-10 Wheeled Ambusher 1 0 0"w 1/1/0 0 1/1 AC1/1/-, CAR16
Towed AC-20 Wheeled Ambusher 1 0 0"w 2/2/0 0 1/1 AC2/2/-, CAR18
Towed Thumper Wheeled Missile Boat 1 0 0"w 0/0/0 0 0/1 ARTT, CAR18
Towed Sniper Wheeled Missile Boat 1 0 0"w 0/0/0 0 0/1 ARTS, CAR24
Towed Long Tom Wheeled Missile Boat 1 0 0"w 0/0/0 0 0/1 ARTLT, CAR35

The assignment of "missile boat" for the artillery pieces was arbitrary; could have been "sniper", but I felt it was more appropriate.

Basically you can truck them in any sufficiently large transport, or tow them with anything with a Trailer Hitch or Tractor Chassis.

Thoughts?

(Also, unlike field guns, there's no reason why not to have towed LRMs, etc. Consider them cheap-arse Gun Trailers ;) )

W.

[Scotty]

Minor quibble: the AC/5 field gun should be 0*/1/1 and does not have the AC special (have to have a minimum of 1 full point in all ranges to qualify; there's no such thing as "AC0*"), because minimum range reduces its damage below 0.5 at short range.  Also, otherwise it's literally better in every single way than the AC/10 field gun, which is dumb.

[worktroll]

Well, at least the AC-10 gets AC ;)

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Points Type Size TMM Move Attack OV A/S Specials
Towed AC-2 Wheeled Sniper 1 0 0"w 0*/0*/0* 0 1/1 CAR9
Towed AC-5 Wheeled Sniper 1 0 0"w 0*/1/1 0 1/1 CAR12
Towed AC-10 Wheeled Ambusher 1 0 0"w 1/1/0 0 1/1 AC1/1/-, CAR16
Towed AC-20 Wheeled Ambusher 1 0 0"w 2/2/0 0 1/1 AC2/2/-, CAR18
Towed Thumper Wheeled Missile Boat 1 0 0"w 0/0/0 0 0/1 ARTT, CAR18
Towed Sniper Wheeled Missile Boat 1 0 0"w 0/0/0 0 0/1 ARTS, CAR24
Towed Long Tom Wheeled Missile Boat 1 0 0"w 0/0/0 0 0/1 ARTLT, CAR35


[ianpelgrim]

FYI the squad with the field guns is 6 LIGHT ac5 not ac10's

i really wonder how many LBX ac5 one could field within 1 platoon