Should we have spinal mount weapons besides Rail Guns?

[Colt Ward]

I really want this.

RNAC40 xp

Problem is the acceleration tended to turn the dropship crews into strawberry jam.

[HobbesHurlbut]

One alternate idea was a circular particle accelerator style NPPC, that would be a waist gun rather than spinal gun.  It also required the ship to maneuver to aim it at a target

The argument about why BA weaponry is smaller than Mech weaponry would be useful.

BA weaponry is smaller because the whole platform (the BA) handles all the turning and aiming of the weapon, while a Mech has to include motors/myomers to maneuver the weapon

A similar rule for Spinal weaponry would be that you get the weapon at half mass, but have to spend thrust to aim the weapon at a target.  Plus some other limit to the number of targets the ship can engage each turn?

Not really. Just look at the mass driver for the penalties.

[truetanker]

Technically the Fredasa does happen to have a Spinal Mounted weapon., its NAC40!

If a weapon is in a bay, and/or it's an odd number, wouldn't it be considered a Spinal Mount? I mean, come on, I sure wouldn't want to mount it off centered, would you?  ::)

TT

[Colt Ward]

Spinal is different than chase armaments.

[I am Belch II]

Depending on the rules, you can only make a weapon with a 70 AV in one bay. Now of course there are millions of ways around this rule. I guess if you mount 40 NL-55s in one bay together and say you have to fire them all at one you can call it a Spinal Laser.