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A while ago, I had made a predator eagle.

this was a predator with two side-sponsons that were effectively anti-skimmer missile pods, I'm thinking of ways to implement them into 6th ed with flyers.

So, this is my idea:

Normal predator, two extra options:

Replace auto cannon for Leviathan auto cannon, costing 15 points

Leviathan autocannons are 48" S7 AP* Heavy 2 Skyfire, Airburst

Maybe 20~25 points for interceptor?

Eaglehook Flak missiles - side sponsons, 80 points

60", S8 AP* Heavy 2, skyfire, airburst

Airburst:

Flak by its very nature is an air-burst weapon in this way, it is capable of bursting close to a lightly armoured vehicle and damaging it anyway, but it is far more dangerous if it hits directly..
after rolling to hit but before rolling to penetrate, roll a scatter dice and a further D6. - if a hit is rolled, treat the D6 result as the AP of the weapon.

For airburst, I'm not sure why you are rolling a scatter die and a normal D6 when a non-hit does nothing (and incidentally, a result higher than 2 on the d6 also does nothing). I'd maybe just make it
"When firing against vehicles, roll a D6. The AP of this weapon is equal to the value rolled on the D6. Against non-vehicle targets, the AP is always -".

This gets rid of a lot of unnecessary dice rolling, and also specifies what the AP is against non-vehicle targets.

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What he said. The scatter roll is completly unnecessary.

RegalPhantom wrote:For airburst, I'm not sure why you are rolling a scatter die and a normal D6 when a non-hit does nothing (and incidentally, a result higher than 2 on the d6 also does nothing). I'd maybe just make it
"When firing against vehicles, roll a D6. The AP of this weapon is equal to the value rolled on the D6. Against non-vehicle targets, the AP is always -".

This gets rid of a lot of unnecessary dice rolling, and also specifies what the AP is against non-vehicle targets.

The scatter is representative of the relative inaccuracy of Flak. Flak may or may not hit, but either way it's gonna do damage to a plane. That's how it works.

The scatter represents it hitting rather than missing, maybe I'll make it 'on a 6 to hit, add D3 strength to the hit.' that might work better.

We can keep the AP can be 5 as standard.