Speed of Heat: House Rules

THE SPEED OF HEAT

House Rules

Disclaimer: Whilst these changes reflect proposed AS2 rules, they are not 'official' at this time. The wording (and any ambiguities/loopholes it causes) is entirely mine and is not the responsibility in any way of JD Webster, Clash of Arms Games, or any other person or agency.

TSoH Flight Rules in use

No snap turns for missiles or aircraft.
Lag/displacement rolls require prep moves equal to 1/3 aircraft speed.
Lag/displacement roll preps may be VFPs.
Use new Idle/Spbk rules (AP#41).
Use vertical advantage rules from AP#39/41.
Incur sustained turn drag for each 30-degree facing, not for each turn, after the first facing.
Climb/Dive accel/decel
- Zoom Climb incurs 1 decel per level climbed
- Vertical Climb incurs 2 decel per level climbed.
- Sustained Climb incurs 0.5 decel per level climbed up to CCC limit, 1 decel per level thereafter.
- All Dives incur 1 accel per level dived.
Use missile flight and attack rules from AP#39.
Use missile launch failure rules from AP#41.
Missiles _always_ move their proportional move first, regardless of whether the aircraft is engaged.
Unloads:
- Definitions: H = HFP, V-1 = VFP loosing 1 level, V-2 = VFP loosing 2 levels, V-3 = VFP loosing 3 levels.
- You may unload in level or steep diving flight.
- Each unload requires you to move half your FPs without turning or maneuvering.
- An unload converts an H to a V-1, OR a V-1 to a V-2. (_Not_ a V-2 to V-3)
- The steep dive limit for VFPs (2/3 of FPs) may not be exceeded.
- If you unload twice in a turn your final flight attitude is adjusted to the next steeper dive type. ie level becomes SD, SD becomes VD.
- An aircraft may not do any aiming or execute any attacks while actually unloading, but may aim and attack normally during a turn in which some FPs were spent unloading.
Pylon Drag:
Next to a particular weapons station, you may see a letter in parentheses. This letter refers to any pylon drag associated with carrying a load on that station. If a letter is not present, that station either: doesnt use a pylon, has a pylon of negligible drag, or always has the pylon fitted and the drag is always included in the aircraft's base configuration. An "A" pylon is 0.5 drag pts.; a "B" pylon is 1.0 drag pts., and a "C" pylon is 1.5 drag pts. "a," "b" and "c" pylons are identical, except that they can be jettisoned after the pylon store is dropped/jettisoned. (eg. F-104s liked to punch their wing pylons after they dropped the FTs) An asterisk following a pylon rating means that the pylon need not be fitted if an FT is carried on that station.
Cruise speed:
Remember that cruise speed is decreased by 0.5 for 1/2 config. aircraft, and by 1.0 for DT aircraft.