Weapons and equipment of Romulans/Remans

[sunnyside]

This is in relation to the 40K thing we might do. But could be interesting anyway.

So what weapons and equipment have we seen them using? I actually know little about this as I skipped Nemesis.

Anyway there are the smaller SMG phase rifles and smewhat larger phase rifles on the romulans.

There is the scorpeon attack ship for ground combat.

Anything else we've seen them use that would be relevant for ground combat?

[Teaos]

I believe it was said the Remans were used as shock troops during the Dominion war so they would probably have some good ground equipment.

[Aaron]

I haven't found anything Reman specific, in NEM their weapons functioned like any other Romulan weapon save for thier fire was white. IIRC they also had a built in bayonet on the rifle.

I suggest that the attack flyer be turned into a skimmer as it's weapon is placed poorly to attack from the air. It's mounted right on top.

[Captain Seafort]

I believe it was said the Remans were used as shock troops during the Dominion war so they would probably have some good ground equipment.

The Klingons were used as shock troops, and they've got nothing but pistols and knives.

[Mikey]

Agreed, on both the Scorpion weapon placement and on the bayonet score. Tough to tell about their directed-energy weapons - they were potent enough to hurt people, but didn't seem to cause any structural damage in the vicinity; of course, there was no dialogue about power settings or such.

The Scorpion seemed fairly unprotected, even with a nominally closed cockpit - they might match up woth jetbikes, even.

[Aaron]

Agreed, on both the Scorpion weapon placement and on the bayonet score. Tough to tell about their directed-energy weapons - they were potent enough to hurt people, but didn't seem to cause any structural damage in the vicinity; of course, there was no dialogue about power settings or such.

Well Picard did weld the shuttle bay door shut with one. Though I suspect that it was just equivilant to tacking something, it didn't take very long after all and he only needed to delay them.

The Scorpion seemed fairly unprotected, even with a nominally closed cockpit - they might match up woth jetbikes, even.

Yeah, it looked pretty flimsy. Throw them a bone and give them a low power sheild or something.

[Graham Kennedy]

I haven't found anything Reman specific, in NEM their weapons functioned like any other Romulan weapon save for thier fire was white. IIRC they also had a built in bayonet on the rifle.

I suggest that the attack flyer be turned into a skimmer as it's weapon is placed poorly to attack from the air. It's mounted right on top.

Heh, I did that once. Designed a lovely little ground attack craft, kinda like a Cobra attack chopper. Only not being a helicopter I didn't have rotors, so I put a whacking great pair of cannon on top where the rotors would have been. Had it all finished and looking lovely when I suddenly thought "hey now... how the hell do those things fire down?" Live and learn.

[sunnyside]

I think I'd have the scorpeon be one of the light combat skimmers. Like landspeeders and eldar vypers.



It seems the "put something where the rotor would be" is a popular option.

What I think I really need help on is the Reman. Or are they just human equivalents with disrupter rifles? I suppose that's easy enough to work with. Though some are apperantly telepathic but they can't go after people not telepathic themselves.

Also Romulans don't have the extra strength or nerve pinch of the Vulcans do they. They're more like humans with sneaky tendencies yes?

[Mikey]

They certainly haven't seemed to have any superhuman physical abilities.

[Aaron]

It seems the "put something where the rotor would be" is a popular option.

Yeah.

What I think I really need help on is the Reman. Or are they just human equivalents with disrupter rifles? I suppose that's easy enough to work with. Though some are apperantly telepathic but they can't go after people not telepathic themselves.

We haven't seen much of them, I think the only HtH we saw was the Viceroy and he got fairly beaten by an overweight XO.

Also Romulans don't have the extra strength or nerve pinch of the Vulcans do they. They're more like humans with sneaky tendencies yes?

They are Vulcans really. Catchacans are rated stronger than a baseline human right? Use their stats.

[sunnyside]

They're certainly more ripped. But not enough to go from a 3 to a 4. Though strength and overall nastiness is factored into weapons skill and they have a higher value for that.

What else do they have. They've got a shuttle. But that's too big at Danube size.


I guess they've got their little tholaron bombs.

I don't think we've seen them. But somehow it seems appropriate to give romulans personal cloaks. Hmmmmm or maybe instead they could have small transports that are cloaked. That seems more cannonish.

[Aaron]

They're certainly more ripped. But not enough to go from a 3 to a 4. Though strength and overall nastiness is factored into weapons skill and they have a higher value for that.

What else do they have. They've got a shuttle. But that's too big at Danube size.


I guess they've got their little tholaron bombs.

I don't think we've seen them. But somehow it seems appropriate to give romulans personal cloaks. Hmmmmm or maybe instead they could have small transports that are cloaked. That seems more cannonish.

Go with a cloak capable skimmer or something, we've never seen a personal Romulan cloak (that wasn't an accident). The thaloron bombs could be transformed into a grenade.

[Deepcrush]

Romulan Stats
WS 2 BS 3 Str 3 T 3 A 1 In 2 Ld 7

Weapons
Disrupter pistol str 4 ap 5 assault 1
Disrupter rifle str 5 ap 5 assault 1 heavy 2
Combat blade (counts as close combat weapon)

Bonus
Can have grenades
Can dual weild pistols (This means they get to shot twice)
Hatred (plus one to hit against klingons WS 3, BS 4)
Officer, WS 3, BS 4, Str 3, T 3, A 2, In 4, Ld 10

[Granitehewer]

ws 2 is very Tau. isnt it? a little too poor for the romulans and remans,who surely should be on a par with the average human?

[Deepcrush]

First off, those stats are only for the Romulans. The Remans will have stats of their own that I will work on shortly.

Secondly, I to was unsure about the WS 2 rating. Here is my reasoning. I've never see a Romulan who was a good close combat fighter. They are sneak attack and ambush fighters. They also seem too avoid boarding and ground combat whenever they can. Only during the planned attack on Vulcan have I heard of Romulans planning a ground assault.