Weapon power?

Shadow Tech · Post by **Shadow Tech** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:58 am

I was just wondering, how many watts do your average energy weapons put out.

Sun Aug 22, 2004 2:01 am

CF Ground vehicle weapons are in the range of 100 GW-100,000 GW.
CF Space fighter weapons are in the 10,000 GW-77,000 GW range.
By the time I get to capital ship weapons, I don't bother rating them in watts. I rate them in tons of TNT. Most CF capital ship weapons are in the megaton-gigaton range. Although some oversized weapons (*cough*ubergun*cough*) have a signifigantly higher damage.

Oh, personal weapons tend to have anywhere from 40 MW for civilian weapons to 1 GW for extremely large mobile infantry weapons.

Blademasters · Post by **Blademasters** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 2:52 am

personal weapons, in the mid gigawatt range... ship weapons, from the high gigawatt range to the high terawatt range, with certain weapons reaxhing the exawatt range.

Kanuckistan · Post by **Kanuckistan** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 3:18 am

Watts? Shouldn't you be rating these things in joules?

CorpSac · Post by **CorpSac** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 3:32 am

i dont bother rateing my weapons (mainly cos i cant be bothered to work it out, besides most of my weapons are plasma based and projectile based (or mixed like my plasma bolter)

Skeelzania · Post by **Skeelzania** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 4:41 am

Skeelzania primarily uses kinetic and missile weapons on our ships, with ground forces being armed with simple chemical (i.e. gunpowder) weapons. The one exception is the ST-45 and ST-47 Super Battle Tanks, which mount a large unrated plasma cannon.

The few energy weapons that are mounted on ships are Chemical Lasers, which use a super-concentrated beam of ionized gas to attack (our ion cannons work on a similar principle, but are much larger). These rate anywhere between 500 gigawatts to 20,000 gigawatts.

Mekanta · Post by **Mekanta** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:59 am

*** Denotes a spoiler. Highlight to read.

Reflex Weapons are quite powerful, ne?

Yamato Gun - Variable. Ranges from 15 Megatons to 200 Gigatons.

Reflex Warhead - Variable. Ranges from 100 Kilotons to 300 Gigatons. Drasticly weakened when in high gravity fields.

Reflex Cannon - Measured in the Hundreds of Gigatons in zero-G. Hundreds of megatons when used on a planet.

***Cascade (Reflex) Warhead - Variable. Ranges from 100 Kilotons to 300 Gigatons. Works in both Microgravity and against planets. (PURE NEO-MEKANTA ONLY WEAPON)

***Cascade (Reflex) Cannon - Measured in the Hundreds of Gigatons when used on a planet. (PURE NEO-MEKANTAN ONLY WEAPON)

Stellar Converter - Unknown. Planet-buster weapon.

***Apocalypse Cannon - 150 TERATONS of destructive power. (PURE NEO-MEKANTAN ONLY WEAPON)

Heh. Spoilers on some of Neo-Mekanta's new toys. But oh well. ^_^

Vernii · Post by **Vernii** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 6:33 am

Megaton to gigaton range shipboard weapons.

Metallinauts · Post by **Metallinauts** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 2:59 pm

The Thor generally puts out Terajoules and some weapons can exert Exajoules. The rest of my fleet stays around the giga/megajoule area. Personal weapons stay around the megawatt gigawatt area.

Sskiss · Post by **Sskiss** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 3:01 pm

I just assume that my weapons power is similar to everyone else (more or less) - just not into numbers...

If it goes BOOM! it works!