WARNING
What follows is quite detailed and lengthy and slightly addictive to certain kinds of personality. Also you should note that any similarity between these figures and Army lists or unit stats is purely co-incidental
. The Golden relationship
Working through Titans, armour, weapons and shields has a marked similarity to warship design of the late C19th and early C20th, so I thought it might be fun to apply some of the principles to titans. In essence there is a relationship between the size of a ship?s hull and the weight of armour, weapons and engines it can carry. In turn the total power of the engines compared with the size and all-up weight of the ship determines the speed of the vessel. Finding the ideal compromise between speed, armour and firepower is the heart of the ?golden relationship?.
Basic elements in the calculations
- After a little trial and error, I came up with the following elements measured in Units of Weight (w) and units of Power consumption (p):-
- Each structural unit weighs 1w and can support 12w and the mechanisms for one weapon mount
- Each power plant weighs 4w, and can move 35w at 5 cms.
- Each DC of armour weighs 1w.
- Each Shield weighs 1w and consumes 2p.
- Each normal titan weapon weighs 1w and consumes 1p.
- Each medium titan weapon weighs 2w and consumes 3p.
- Each large titan weapon weighs 3w and consumes 5p.
Warhound (3DC, 2x shields and 2x weapons)
- Total weight = 34w (just inside the structural amount of 36w for the three units needed to carry all that power).
Power consumption=36p.
6x power plants will move the Warhound at a speedy 29.12 cms.
To up-gun the titan, you can use medium weapons (at greater cost) which reduce the speed to 26.25 cms, but to mount a third medium weapon, you would have to drop both shields to stay in the weight limits.
To make it go faster you need an extra power plant and have to drop both shields and use only one ?standard? weapon to achieve 35cms.
- Total weight = 32w (well inside the structural amount of 36w for three units).
Power consumption=36p.
4x power plants will move the Reaver at an acceptable 19.44 cms.
To up-gun the titan, you would need to add another weapon mount, but adding 4x medium or large weapons reduces the speed to 15.22 cms.
You can make it go faster by adding an extra power plant, and dropping 2x shields and using 2 ?standard? weapons. Doing this increases the speed to ~25cms
- Total weight = 38w (well inside the structural amount of 48w for four units).
Power consumption=44p.
4x power plants move the Warlord with ?standard? weapons at a sedate 15.91 cms. ?
To up-gun this titan, you also need to add more power, but 5x power plants still move the Warlord armed with 2x large and 2x medium weapons at 14.88 cms. However it is at its structural limit so cannot support 4x large weapons. If you want to up-gun the titan to 5 weapons, you would need to add another weapon mount, but then 5x large weapons reduces the speed to 12.5 cms.
Alternatively, you can drop down to 2x ?medium? weapons and 4x shields for a nippy beast that rumbles along at 21 cms.
- Shadowswords, Baneblades etc use 1x power plant to move the 3x small weapon mounts at 15.91 cms (the additional weight is for the other secondary weapons etc)
Leman Russ get 19.44cms when carrying 3x small weapons with their single DC armour
Here are the calcs (edited to onclude the Ordinatii)
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It does attempt to rationalize Titan stats and the relation between speed, weapons and the number of void shields. Keep up the good work!
