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Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« on: 27 July 2019, 04:01:52 »
Now seems like a good time to collect all these threads in one place.

First Principles

Specific Weapons
The AR+ Auto-Rifle
The Intek+ Laser Rifle
The Intek Pulse Laser Rifle
Federated Barret M42B Shenanigans
Lancelot Mk VI Sniper Rifle (Rabid Fox model)
Tech Manual Errata Shenanigans (nerfs most of the above; also includes an "Aliens" Pulse Rifle knock off at post #37)
De-nerfing Infantry Blazers
Support Laser (Medium)
Post-Shrapnel Support Lasers
Taurian Auto Rifle (TAR)

Weapon Classes
Machine Guns (Now with Semi-Portable Autocannons!)
Grenade Launchers
Mortars
"Discount" Weapons and Armor
Thermobaric Weapons
Adjusting Reload Factor
Shrapnel Issue #1 Sniper Rifles in TW
Shrapnel Issue #3 Pistols in TW
Shrapnel Issue #5 Sub-Machine Guns in TW
Shrapnel Issue #7 Combat Shotguns in TW
Shrapnel Issue #9 Laser Pistols in TW
Shrapnel Issue #9 Laser Rifles in TW

Other Gear
Braces for AToW Pistols
Long Range Field Communicator
Power Packs
Rations
Skin Suits (inspired by Cannonshop)
Asteroid Survival Kits
Proposed Fix to OG SLDF Infantry Armor Kit
Improved Plate Carriers (IPCs) [Tanker Smocks for Infantry]

Character Creation
Character Creation Excel Spreadsheet, v4.9
Rockjack Affiliation (non-Terran Belters)
Lothian League Affiliation
Shipwrecked Stage 4 Module
Spacer Life Stage 4 Module ("Civilian Job" for Spacers)
Command and Staff College
Staff Tour Stage 4 Module
Faction Military Academies
Infantry SPAs
Heavy Hauler SPA (Heavy Lifter for Vehicles)
Ship's Crew Field
Gun Kata Skill
Expanded Transit Disorientation Syndrome (TDS)
AToW Trait Point Costs for Belter Augmentations
Phantom 'Mech for AToW Discussion

Other
Jams on Fumble take a Simple Action to clear
Exploding 2d6
Herb's AToW Companion page 170-171 Errata
Conversion Table for AToW Scale Weapons to TW Damage
Campaign Operations Pay Scale Discussion
Campaign Operations Infantry Spare Parts Correction
Rules Question on Belter Augmentations in AToW
Small Arms Ammunition (getting from 2/3 to 4/4 damage)

Other Scale Stuff

TW Weapons and Equipment
The Blazer Cannon Manifesto
Remote Weapon Stations
IS Micro Laser
IS Micro Pulse Laser
Even Lighter Gauss Rifles
The RL-5
Laser Arrays
Laser Arrays for IS Advanced Tech Lasers
Integrated Electronics and Sensor Suites for BA
BA SATCOM Suite
Replacing AC/5s with AC/2s in 3025
Alternate Prototype Double Heat Sinks
HBS Heat Banks
Alternate Rules for Transport Bays
Rifle Cannon Math (locked thread)
'Mech Mortar/1s as "Under Barrel Grenade Launchers"
Inner Sphere "Light" ECM suites
Thumper Integrated Artillery System (TIAS)
Light Snub-Nosed PPC
Single Shot (NOT One-Shot) Missile Launchers
Rationalizing Infantry Carrying Capacity
Class A Refit Kits (SW Edition)

Units
The Double Deuce II/II-σ [3053]
The Wolf Skinners [3024]
Glenmora Planetary Militia [3030s]
Forza Deici di Galatea [3035]
Baronies of Foxhaven [Curated for Liam's Ghost]
ComStar Level I Field Artillery [For Worktroll]
CampOps Infantry Company with Organic Support
AAA Security
Faction Infantry Squads Built at AToW Scale

Story/Game Threads
The Double Deuce (Departure from Campoleone)
The Double Deuce OOC Discussion Thread
The Double Deuce (Outbound from Campoleone and on Astrokaszy)
The Double Deuce (Astrokaszian Defectors)
The Wolf Skinners (on Astrokaszy... the past is prologue!  "This is the Way the World Ends")

Scenarios
"Carentan" for AToW

'Mech Designs
JagdPanther (Panther with Thumper Artillery Cannon)
Arturion (jumping Centurion with a Thumper)
Thumpback (Hunchback with a Thumper)
Marik Civil War Special Hunchback (Blazer Cannon!)
AC/2 Rifleman
Thumper Artillery Cannon Archer
Small Laser Battery Archer
Dervish Blackjack (Mediums and Armor instead of SRM-2s)
Budget Wasp (15 tons, Commercial Armor, RL-10)
Small Laser Griffin
Chicken Hawk Scout Hunter (P-Hawk with a TAC)
SnACback, a Hunchback with a Sniper Artillery Cannon in 3014
LTAC Zeus in 3015, with a 3022+ variant with Prototype Freezers
WVR-6DT, a Davion Wolverine with a Thumper Cannon and DHS
SHD-2HT,a Shadow Hawk with a Thumper pre-Helm
DRG-1T, a Dragon with a Thumper Cannon in 3015
A collection of Astrokaszian weapon test platforms
Spector Succession Wars Downgrade
UrbanBlazerMech (2812)
A jumping Thunderbolt with an AC/20
A WVR-6M with a Blazer Cannon
Alaskan Crab (75 tons)
Conurbanmech
Trigger (AC/2 Valkyrie)
Hermes II with a Blazer Cannon
Eridani Thunderbolt with a Blazer Cannon

Aerospace Designs (some with deck plans)
Lucifer R21 Upgrade (3054 with ALL the Small Lasers)
Manatee 'Mech Carrier Deck Plans
Mark VII Landing Craft (and Egret variant) Deck Plans
Quickzell Dropship with Main Bay Deck Plan
Pack Burro "ASF" (for Worktroll)
Lothian TRB-D39 Thunderbird Variant
Cheap 5-ton Conventional Fighter
LLS Light Guard (modified Aquila for Vehrec's game)
Cannonshop's "Existential Horror" Challenge (Ships for the Quarantine Line)
Winged Caisson Artillery System
Old Leopard Math (not quite right, but close)

Combat Vehicle Designs
PPC Scorpion
An upgraded PPC Scorpion
Medium (15 ton) APCs
Hobgoblin (AC/20 Goblin, plus other variants and ART by Plog!)
Royal Goblin (Fusion powered Star League design)
SLDF Goblin (Fusion powered, but no "advanced" tech)
Fuel Cell Goblin (for Giovanni Blasini)
Edge of Tomorrow Quad Tilt Rotor PA(L) Carrier
Lothian J. Edgar Variants
Sea Wolf (15 ton sub)
Scarborough's 3020 Catalog
     Damascene Scimitar (Thumper Artillery Cannon)
     Hisan Shahin IFV (Saracen/Scimitar/Saladin family)
     Shahina Recovery Vehicle
     Sutra (Blazer Saladin)
     Silah (Thumper Saladin)
     Qaws Sahm (AA Scimitar)
Onager SP Thumper (Wheeled)
LTAC Hover Tank
Mini-StuG (Heavy Wheeled APC w/Thumper Artillery Cannon)
Micro-StuG (15-ton, 3/5 Thumper Artillery Cannon)
Pole Cat (Fusion Ferret)
An Even Lighter Scorpion Tank! (And Variants!)
Hover Recovery Vehicle (Drag an Atlas at 8/12)
Wheeled Recovery Vehicles (Lift Hoists Exist!)
Mortar Truck (5 tons, 9/14, MM/1)
"Hold my ISR" VTOL (3025, 5 tons, Jet Booster and Recon Camera)
Frihet VTOL, inspired by DC Bruins

Battle Armor Designs
Nighthawk PA(L) Variants
My response to Cannonshop's design challenge that resulted in the Wild Hunt (BA mounted on quad BA)
BA Cargo Lifter Clarification (1 ton lift per pair)

Other
What if KF Physics didn't make Fusion drives magical?
Alternate Small Craft Design Rules
Jump Core Diameter Discussion
Field Kitchens Aboard Ships
VTOLs on the Low Altitude Map
Fan Fiction Tribble #725: More Taurian than Taurians
Shrapnel Links on DriveThruRPG

Other People's Useful Stuff
Worktroll's 3025 Successor State Army Reports
An index of Black Tiger Actual and Cannonshop stories
Lagrange's Discussion of 3025 Space Marines

The GREAT Captain Roberts stories by Cannonshop
Ridiculously Overboard!! (Strategos Prelude)
Strategos (Part 1)
Strategos (Part 2)
Strategos (Part 3)
Strategos Concludes!
Strategos Notes
The Great and The Good (a Great! CAPTAIN ROBERTS!!! tale, needs to be filed)
« Last Edit: 25 February 2024, 18:03:10 by Daryk »

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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #1 on: 16 October 2022, 00:58:45 »
Thanks for putting this together all in one place  :thumbsup:

I'm to run an AToW adventure for a local con this Feb. and might use some of these (with attribution of course). 

By the way, have you ever seen any one try their hand a realistic warship art?  For example how do your launch and recover fighters from a flying skyscraper safely while under thrust?  Not sure how the flight decks should be arranged in such a situation.  The internals of even a small warship would make a great AToW sandbox play area.
Hat tips to Slightlylyons who fixed aerotech in one post and to Daryk for organized cool stuff.

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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #2 on: 16 October 2022, 01:56:02 »
You're very welcome!  :thumbsup:

WarShip deckplans are on my list to do but WAY down it.  I want to do a couple more DropShips and a Scout JumpShip before trying that.  That said, Matt Plog does commissions for VERY reasonable rates, and would probably take a swing at it if you asked him.

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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #3 on: 16 October 2022, 12:36:18 »
Great stuff. Just learning about the 0.6 primary weapon change. Thank you for posting.
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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #4 on: 16 October 2022, 12:41:26 »
Just trying to help!   :thumbsup:

I'm amazed my index went for three years without a reply, but I won't discourage them.

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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #5 on: 16 October 2022, 14:49:50 »
Just trying to help!   :thumbsup:

I'm amazed my index went for three years without a reply, but I won't discourage them.

Well as someone getting back into the game over the past two years (who likes to tinker), I have found your posts incredibly helpful and inspiring.
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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #6 on: 16 October 2022, 14:51:58 »
Thank you!  Encouragement is always helpful!  :thumbsup:

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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #7 on: 06 November 2022, 22:19:54 »
Thanks for putting this together all in one place  :thumbsup:

I'm to run an AToW adventure for a local con this Feb. and might use some of these (with attribution of course). 

By the way, have you ever seen any one try their hand a realistic warship art?  For example how do your launch and recover fighters from a flying skyscraper safely while under thrust?  Not sure how the flight decks should be arranged in such a situation.  The internals of even a small warship would make a great AToW sandbox play area.

I don't know about fan designs, but there was a role-playing scenario book that had an experimental ship in the Exodus fleet mis-jump to a time circa the Clan Invasion. Forgot the name, since I left it with a bunch of other such books at a friend's house.  It had full deck-plans for that ship.

Edit: Living Legends?
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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #8 on: 07 November 2022, 06:21:01 »
I don't know about fan designs, but there was a role-playing scenario book that had an experimental ship in the Exodus fleet mis-jump to a time circa the Clan Invasion. Forgot the name, since I left it with a bunch of other such books at a friend's house.  It had full deck-plans for that ship.

Edit: Living Legends?

You are correct!  It was a Manassas Heavy Cruiser that had the experimental Jump drive to let them go 40 light years at a time.  In their last KF Jump, it took them to their destination system, but they needed 274 years to arrive.

The book Living Legends had the warship layout in the very back, in pages 58-64.

If you want a thread that discussed the Manassas, its jump drive, and a few potential implications, here it is
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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #9 on: 09 November 2022, 11:20:29 »
As far as ASF/Small Craft being launched it's a bad idea in atmo if Velocity is over 2.  This does give quite a bit of leeway to just idle the engines for a turn to launch some ASF/Small Craft.  For all other launch conditions it is done at the end of movement from a rules perspective and thanks to the laws of conservation of momentum it's largely not going to be a big deal for launching if the craft is under thrust.

All recovery though has the little rules caveat of the ASF/Small Craft and the recovering unit must match velocity and heading.  So it's not impossible to do while both units expend thrust but it takes some thought to properly execute.

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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #10 on: 25 July 2023, 17:47:12 »
Were a bunch of threads deleted? Ugh, lots of the links getting errors now.
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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #11 on: 25 July 2023, 17:57:20 »
Knightmare is having to do something to the forums backend that has broken a lot of links.  No eta on when the links, smilies, and a proper dark mode will be back yet.

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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #12 on: 25 July 2023, 18:15:14 »
Yes, that.  Knightmare has told me fixing the problem is on his list, but some way down it.  I'm willing to wait vice manually redoing a bunch of links I eventually won't have to.  All the threads are still there, honest!

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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #13 on: 10 September 2023, 09:49:33 »
I'm interested in your take on:

Rations and Asteroid Survival Kits threads.

Can you link me to them in a PM?

I'm looking to "flesh" my AU, that you've helped me with so far.

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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #14 on: 10 September 2023, 10:17:00 »
I'll update those links to the "new" format so everyone can see them in the first post.  I'm still holding out hope for Knightmare to fix the global problem, though.  It should take me 5-10 minutes.

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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #15 on: 10 September 2023, 10:22:01 »
The Rations link was already updated for some reason (it might have pre-dated "pretty links"), and the Asteroid Survival Kit link now works again.

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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #16 on: 10 September 2023, 10:29:18 »
Yeah, I had to refresh several times, but I got in...

Thanks for the excellent write ups.

I'm assuming standard Rations have a concentration of vitamins, minerals and electrolytes mixed into the protein based vegetarian "meat" product? A drink powder, fortified with more vitamins, minerals and dry electrolytes, that is awful to wash down and dry ass desert carbo clustered cookie cracker that tastes like sawdust, which in hindsight is way the Focht better, both in nutritional and taste value?

Maybe some type of fruit paste that looks like toothpaste in a tube spread?

Did I just quoted the '80s meal, ready eat menu?  :shocked:

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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #17 on: 10 September 2023, 10:30:29 »
Thanks... that kind of commentary should be in that thread, though... :)

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Re: Index of Daryk's AToW Tweaks
« Reply #18 on: 26 November 2023, 09:02:36 »
All links should be working again after the demise of "pretty links".  I won't be sad if they come back, but I'm not converting again!