"It ain't a shadowrun unless the Johnson's screwed you twice...and then you've returned the favor"

Oh! Mental image! I hate you!

Wait.



Ooh...

Ah, yes...That thread...'twas so entertaining once the topic drift occured...

One of my players made one of those once. He had to pay a hunk of cash to make it look and move in a convincing manner, but otherwise it was very pigeon-like. I think it was a small rotor-drone chassis. In the description it says that there are small drones that use beating wings instead of a rotor. I think they called them "hummingbird drones".

They were excellent spies.

...You'll be great at parties. Don't worry.

Slightly reminiscient of Toymaker from Batman.

What about astral perception? Any way around being spotted in the crowd if a mage flicks over to check?

Heh. The frisbee o Death, ala the garbage can lid drone.

-Siege

Well i once had an idea...

A Van of some description, with sides and back linked to hydraulics and a motorised rollerdoor roof, and a MASSIVELY reinforced floor, mounting a 80mm howitzer with a chopped barrel on a turret.

****The Van rolls into the road outside the lonestar compound, its tyres humming off the pavement, it reaches the section of the road right out the front and executes a turn, placing it int he center of the road with its rear doors pointing towards the compound. With a gentle hum the rollerdoor roof begins to retract, while with a mechanical whine the sides of the van fold down to the road surface, revelainin in the back of the van, a turn of the century howitzer turret, with a earth rending boom the front doors of lonestars offices bucked inwards as the shell hit them, blowing them back out when the shell exploded in the foyer, spraying glass, furniture and bodies onto the lawn. to discourage opposition the turret rotated and put another shot into the vehicle pool, the shell ripping through the flimsy metal of the rollerdoor and touching off an explosion in the fuel storage tanks, blowing the west wing of the building appart and starting a massive fire in what remained of the building.

On cue another van squealed around the corner and came to a halt in front of the howitzer van, a team dressed in black dismounted from the van and moved through the lonestar compound through what remained of the front entrance and turning east. The turret began to rotate to the right, it centered on the intersection that the previous van had just came around the cannon roared and the shell hit the pavement just as the lonestar patrolcar rounded the corner, the windsheild was starred by flying pavement and the front tyre hit the craters edge and snapped the front axle the car spun to a stop and another shell roared in through the vehicles trunk, shredding the car and scattering shards of metal over the street.

the cannon tracked towards the building again and centered on the doors, almost on cue the team appeared the troll carrying a slumped body over each shoulder, 2 team mates sending streams of lead back into the building , one of the figures stumbled and fell as a heavy round smashed through their leg, the way it bent as the figure tried to stand was evidence that it was broken. A loudspeaker on the van containign the howitzer barked "get down" all 3 black garbed figures dove to the ground and covered their ears, the troll did his best to cover both his and his figures ears as the cannon shell blasted into what was left of the foyer, collapsing the middle of the building. The team struggled back to their feet and stumbled towards the road, the troll reached the van first and the little reguard for their wellbeing threw them into the back wall of the van and reached back to help his team mates, he assisted them into the van with none too much gentleness and grabbed out a heavy machine gun, its belt of ammo reaching back into the van as the heavy whine of the vans doors retracting filled the air, a yellowjacket hellicopter rounded the 5 story building behond the van and peppered the howitzer with heavy guage slugs before it was riddled with holes by the trolls machinegun. With a heavy click the pannels snapped into their up positions and the rollerdoor roleld itself out, with a gently thrum the van engines revved up and drove down the street, past the remains of the smoking patrolcar, with a heavy explosion behind them the yellowjackets autopilot tried to land the helicopters remains in the space where the helipad on the vehicle pool used to be.

The lonestar vehicles began pouring into the area, but nobody paid attention to the two vans with markings of a local bakery moving out of the area at less than the speed limit. ****

Better make that 76mm then. I'm glad you mentioned the hydraulics and the massively reinforced floor.

Remember, though, that a light howitzer ain't that big. The HE charge is, what, 1kg in weight? I don't have SOTA63, but a light howitzer shouldn't do any more damage than the M12 Mortar (which, judging by projectile weight, is about 80mm) -- 18D with HEs.

You'd be better off with an 8-tube missile launcher -- far smaller and lighter, more accurate, higher damage, better anti-armor capability, higher RoF, etc. The only real advantage the Light Howitzer Van has over the Missile Launcher Van is higher range (though not by much), cheaper ammunition and simpler indirect fire. (Well, okay, a howitzer has more style...)

Ie it would be better to drive the MLV in front of the Lone Star compound and leave the LHV 1.5km away, behind a forest hill...

To be in the same size/weight/power range as a howitzer, you'd need at least a dozen Vindicators.

Now there's an idea... Parlez-vous 50,000rpm?

That's 120kg of Shadowrun Ammunition per CT.