First Point - They're not...
Exactly, which is why I believe this submission to be
extraordinarily overpowered.
...infantry of the leg kind in a SARP combined arms environment are going to die en masse...
Yes, from
power armor,
vehicles,
aerospacecraft, and
mecha. I'm not contesting that - I'm contesting the fact that these missiles would allow literally any infantryman to do
this from ten kilometers away. How can you possibly call that anything
but overpowered?
...and mostly when these articles are considered whether a leg cat can use em or not infantry aren't factored in because honestly we're not balanced around it.
Baloney.
Power armor is balanced against
power armor,
vehicles are balanced against
vehicles,
aerospacecraft are balanced against
aerospacecraft,
mecha are balanced against
mecha, and
starships are balanced against
starships - so nice try, but no. We
are balanced around "it," and this missile in my opinion tosses this balance out the window.
...as far as why they can tote this thing? Pact guys are going to either have augments that allow them to operate these systems or employ personal electronic suits that provide and link into sensor data.
Thereby allowing said "guys" to acquire and/or fire these things at the speed of thought. Yep, that's
totally balanced, alright - what next, a
smart pistol?
More or less this ATGM, RPG-7, or Igla MANPAD, primarily on the infantry level for use against PA or light armored vehicles.
Then why are there two different
warhead types, one of which is
specifically meant for use against large groups of infantry?
That reason is called the
High Explosive Dual Purpose Anti-Material (HEDP-AM), correct? I mean, come on - it even says (emphasis mine)...
The warhead description said:
The most common type of warhead employed, the HEDP-AM is both an anti-material and anti-personnel weapon system...
Nice try.
As far as the range goes that will require sensor data, meaning something with optical sensors has to see your infantry and provide the launch coords...
Didn't you
literally just say the following?
Pact guys are going to either have augments that allow them to operate these systems or employ personal electronic suits that provide and link into sensor data, of course more then likely this platform will directly engage you.
Please,
@Arieg. What you're
actually saying is that once a Pact soldier sees an enemy, they'll be able to lock them up within a few seconds and shoot this missile, likely before said enemy even has time to respond - and that's the best-case scenario; what's to stop someone from sending up a drone/glassing from far away/using starship sensor data/using vehicle data/etc. to take out large numbers of "obscured" (beyond line-of-sight) targets with pinpoint accuracy from ten kilometers away?
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Second Point - I was using Nerimium as a RHA (rolled homogeneous steel) analogue but I can switch to Durandium if its a large issue (though Nerimium is practically site wide and is a single element material which works better for my purposes).
It's a large issue because, coincidentally enough,
Neriumium isn't "site wide" like
Durandium; rather, it's used almost exclusively by
Nepleslian Arms and Munitions, who is the exclusive military producer for the
Democratic Imperium of Nepleslia - which is a
faction whose leadership you've had..."
disagreements" with in the past. Furthermore, it's a
material that the
Colonial Pact would have no in-character knowledge of whatsoever due to their lack of contact with any other
faction in the setting.
But again we don't design things based around the needs of unarmored leg infantry.
Like I said before: Baloney. We design things based on the needs of unarmored leg infantry when said things are used by unarmored leg infantry.
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Third Point - Actually if your going full 8oz can size mine are taller but yours are fatter and compared to some other options in the setting woefully short range, though I believe we've had this discussion about capping capabilities based on Nep articles during the sensor debacle. It didn't hold up then and it shouldn't hold up here...
For a third time: Baloney. Why should everyone else's infantry - not just
Nepleslia's,
everyone's - have to scramble to keep with up just because you introduce something that, as I've said before, is (in my opinion)
extraordinarily overpowered?
...additionally you have an antimatter missile option which a Tier 6 damage 3 meter blast radius of effect...
You seem to be forgetting,
@Arieg, that the
BOLT mini-missile is not usable by infantry. The
V100N 'Voz' Micro Missile, by contrast, is.
..... so I don't have more OP systems.
As I've stated before, the
V100N 'Voz' Micro Missile is in my opinion
extraordinarily overpowered for the reasons mentioned above, below, and in my
previous posts.
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Fourth Point - I'm effectively operating within the normal sizes of the site...
You're not, actually.
Elysian,
Lorath,
Motoyoshi,
Nepleslian,
Origin, and
USO mini-missiles are larger, equally destructive, and
not usable by infantry.
As far as mass and blast I've described the why, I'm not using chemical explosives, I'm using micro-fusion detonation systems to either generate plasma and direct it or simply to create a large explosion.
So? Many of the
mini-missiles I mentioned above have similar or superior warheads and greater mass - yet have lesser blast radii and equivalent "punch."
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But yea, as far as this getting used by infantry and those guys using it on hostile infantry, the operators would be limited by sensor data and their own situation.
For a
fourth time: Baloney. Sensor data is hardly what I'd call "limiting" when it's available from personal gear/drones/vehicles/starships/other operators/etc. - and "situation"? Seriously? How is being able to stand ten kilometers away and get a practically-guaranteed kill- regardless of line-of-sight blockages - "limiting" in any shape or form?
Either way someone is going to noob tube someone.
Yeah, because it's certainly easier than using plain old bullets - which have those pesky downsides called "range," "bullet drop," "line of sight," and "unguided" - to kill someone. Why bother even carrying guns to the battlefield when you can just carry a bunch of micro-missile launchers with greater range, accuracy, and area of effect?
The submitted article is/does not…
[] Overpowered (or cutting tech for a faction with little or no roleplay)
With this in mind, this article would not pass. Please reform it to fit in the setting as less overpowered.
I've stated above why it is not overpowered and well within operating standards for the setting.
You, in my opinion, have done nothing of the sort; rather - in my opinion - you've only further demonstrated how
extraordinarily overpowered (in my opinion) the
V100N 'Voz' Micro Missile is.