[Torg] DV of moving vehicle?

[Benjamin Grant]

One of the things I can do is put up force fields in this Torg game I spoke
of earlier.  If an object (say a car) weighing X crashes into it at speed Y,
how do I determine the DV of the "attack"?  Also, I assume that just as the
car "attacks" what it hits, the wall attacks the car back with an equal but
opposite force?

I mean, one can just add the weight to the speed, but I have no reason to
think that that translates properly in terms of comparison to the DV of
other weapons and what not (falling damage, etc).

Oh, speaking of falling damage, how do you determine that in Torg also?  I
didn't see that.

Thanks.

-Benn Grant
eFix Computer Consulting
benn at 4efix.com
603.283.6601


>-----Original Message-----
>From: torg-bounces at justintimeadventures.com [mailto:torg-
>bounces at justintimeadventures.com] On Behalf Of Kansas Jim
>Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 1:48 PM
>To: torg at justintimeadventures.com
>Subject: Re: [Torg] what's the damage value of a nuclear bomb?
>
>Benn writes:
>
>> Seriously, curious what the DV of a nuke would be.
>
>I don't recall an official DV ever being given for one. The Fuel-
>Air Explosive (FAE) bomb is sometimes likened to causing as much
>devastation as a small tactical (battlefield) nuke and the Kanawa
>Heavy Weapons Catalog gave that a DV of 50, though I have found that
>many of Torg's explosive DVs are a bit underrated. I believe I
>bumped the FAE's DV up somewhere in the 55-60 range in my games.
>
>Most references I've seen to tactical nukes indicate a yield range
>between 0.1 and 1 kiloton (kt). With Torg's log scaling, the difference
>between 0.1 and 1 kiloton could be rated as a difference of five on
>the DV so my FAE DV range above could cover that. If we set 1 kt as a
>DV of 60 we can then easily scale up from there. One megaton (mt) is a
>thousand times greater which on Torg's scale is +15, so a 1 mt nuke
>would be DV 75.
>
>For comparison purposes, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was 12-15 kt
>so that'd be a DV of 66. The Nagasaki bomb was 22-25 kt so DV 67. The
>largest nuke built by the US (that they admit to) was 25 mt so DV 82.
>The largest nuke the Soviets had was 50 mt so DV 84.
>
>To put that info to use, with a minimal TOU of 55 you would need
>at least a 100 kt nuke (DV 70) to take down a bridgehead. Or you
>can take the Eddie Paragon route and do it with a satchel charge and
>a Martyr card. :)
>
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