So it's a better Large VSPL? Same weight, worse heat, better damage and range brackets all around. And it's smaller, too. Sure, five points more heat are not nothing, but in the age of DHS, it's a small price to pay for overall better performance. Honestly, I think this is one of those fan design weapons that makes sense and I would use in a heartbeat, but It makes at least one canon weapon obsolete. Granted, the same could be said about the SNPPC and the LSPL, but here you have the added difference of one being a head capper out to twelve hexes and the other merely going internal on a head hit out to five.
to-hit range modifier / damage for both weapons at a given range:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
HSNPPC | 0 / 15 | 0 / 15 | 0 / 15 | 0 / 15 | 0 / 15 | 0 / 15 | 0 / 15 | 0 / 15 | 0 / 15 | +2 / 12 | +2 / 12 | +2 / 12 | +2 / 12 | +4 / 8 | +4 / 8 |
LVSPL | -2 / 11 | -2 / 11 | -2 / 11 | -2 / 11 | -2 / 11 | 0 / 9 | 0 / 9 | 0 / 9 | 0 / 9 | 0 / 9 | +2 / 7 | +2 / 7 | +2 / 7 | +2 / 7 | +2 / 7 |
