@Ametheliana to answer your first point, basically, I felt like it could be cool if sarp had its own version of
this. Only real reason I have for unarmoured people being able to fire it is because
it might be kinda cool, according to the DRv3 article there are anti-mech rocket launchers used by non-PA personnel so I figured it might be neat to have a big and clunky rifle that fulfills a similar purpose - also for the second part of that question, I'm not military and have never claimed to be so this could be wrong, but I am pretty sure anti-material rifles are used to take out things like aircraft (most likely parked ones irl), missile sites, radar installations and such.
p.s. I typed that up and then went to go check and apparently almost the exact same list of things is sitting on the Denel ntw 20 page lol
For the tier, Syaoran suggested perhaps tier 8 and I'd like to go for that but I am flexible to a degree.
Honestly for the whole range ordeal, the LASR MK II has a max range of 20km as well as being roughly half the length of the AHAMR and I used that as a baseline, though looking back at it I am pretty sure my brain put down 40 miles instead of 40 km and that's just my bad - I'm yet to see anybody suggest any new ideas for a range on this thing, but I am open to ideas.
@Alex Hart this should answer your post too.
For those last two points from Ame though, they seem more like an issue with the GM moreso than with the article itself, the first point not so much and I can change the availability a bit if need be - this isn't a "bring on every mission" weapon due to its size, bulk (that bulk extending to the clunky-ass magazines), the limited ammo capacity how expensive it is to fire the gun (I didn't put a specific price on it but it is an aether generator wrapped in expensive metals, so there is no way it is cheap).
Some ideas on how I could change parts of this though:
Adjust the range, obviously.
I should probably put a radius for the reaction that occurs when the shots land, probably 2-3 feet in diameter at most.
Would making the magazines lower capacity help at all? right now it has a drum mag that holds 9 shots (and I gave it that style of magazine to make carrying around more of them a hassle) but maybe a smaller magazine might help~
I still need to hear back from
@Syaoran about giving the inertial compensator a recharge time to limit the rifle further but I reckon that might help a lot.
People seem to act like what I say is what I think is final when this is anything but true, I want things to be in a state that they can be approved in, so I am more than happy to change things here and there - I wanted unarmoured people to be able to fire this but in the end if I have to rip the inertial compensator out of the article then so be it, but yeah.