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Posted by: lunavoco Sep 1 2011, 03:20 AM

Are there any additional rules when constructing miniguns? Arsenal Pg 30 Sidebar is intriguing, but offers little in the way of costs, availability, or modification limitations.

Is this a case of "use your best judgement"?

Posted by: KarmaInferno Sep 1 2011, 05:06 AM

Nope. You'll have to make some up.




-k

Posted by: Dakka Dakka Sep 1 2011, 05:13 AM

There are no other rules. Minigun besides the published ones are purely GM Fiat.
Whether you can put barrel mods on miniguns has not been addressed either.

Posted by: Mardrax Sep 1 2011, 11:29 AM

I'd just up the price by a sixfold or so.

And forget about using the barrelmounted scope.

Posted by: Mäx Sep 1 2011, 11:55 AM

I'm pretty sure you can't mount a scope onto barrel slot.

Posted by: Mardrax Sep 1 2011, 11:56 AM

You can't. But hey, I liked the image

Posted by: Zaranthan Sep 1 2011, 02:11 PM

http://tinyurl.com/3jv9cx9

Posted by: Dakka Dakka Sep 1 2011, 02:21 PM

A sensible houserule, but it is just that - a houserule.

Posted by: Yerameyahu Sep 1 2011, 03:04 PM

You can't ever minigun-ify anything existing. You can invent *new* from-scratch miniguns (with no guidance from the rules).

I'd first ask, 'why?' What about the existing miniguns doesn't work, and can't be fixed via mods (RAW or GM fiat)?

Posted by: Neraph Sep 1 2011, 03:37 PM

Based on that one line one could argue that you can simply buy a gun and claim it is a minigun version. I'm not sure I agree with that though.

Posted by: Yerameyahu Sep 1 2011, 03:40 PM

Ha! Not successfully.

Posted by: KarmaInferno Sep 1 2011, 03:55 PM

In any case it's a "GM has to make something up" situation.



-k

Posted by: Yerameyahu Sep 1 2011, 03:57 PM

Anyway. All guns in SR are the same except for magic bonuses (Alpha, White Knight), so what are you actually looking for? There's at least one LMG, MMG, and HMG minigun in the books (right?), so you've got everything you'd want.

Posted by: CanRay Sep 1 2011, 04:01 PM

Well, considering that the prototype for the original modern Minigun was a Civil War-Era (Or thereabouts) Gatling Gun with an electric motor, shouldn't be too difficult to build a primitive one with Shadowtech...

Posted by: ZeroPoint Sep 1 2011, 04:06 PM

as far as i know, there's only one LMG and two vehicle weapons (at least in the books i'm aware of).

I don't know if it would be possible to mod any weapon into a minigun...seems like something that would have to be built with being a minigun in mind.

But if you were to have it possible, it would require a facility, and take the HV mod and multiply up the cost by like 3 or so.

Posted by: Yerameyahu Sep 1 2011, 04:12 PM

I could well be wrong, then. If so, I certainly understand the want.

Yes, it is *impossible* to mod anything into a minigun. MGs can be *designed* as miniguns (by the GM).

Posted by: Mäx Sep 1 2011, 06:05 PM

German Arsenal has MMG minigun(there's a link somewhere in these forums to PDF containing all the german extra stuff and couple of the chargen tools around here also have that stuff in them).

Posted by: ZeroPoint Sep 1 2011, 06:22 PM

Cool, thanks for the heads up on that Max