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I am about to get back into my Pentomic project and I need to create an aircraft or two.

First thing is I want to get the math right on creating the 6 x .50 (or 4 x 20MM) suite of guns right. Is it as simple as taking one of a gun and multiplying it across all of the columns?

Second, I am now getting into territory where I need to know what sensor codes are, and what the various specials are. I know the official guides aren't out, but is there anyway we could get a sneak-peak cut-and-paste?

Please and thank you.

All of the sensor and specials codes are listed in the game manual as to what they are. Guns. Not as simple. I'll see if I can get a detailed breakdown going today for you. Most values are based on what one gun can do. Range, accuracy, and specials are that way. The SA value is a diminishing returns per additional barrel as an abstraction of the aggregate firepower of the grouping.

Read the manual?

There's an idea. The game was so easy to learn that it never crossed my mind.

Still, kind of embarrassing to get caught like that. [:D]

I did want to get the gun numbers right since aircraft in that era just before AAM's often mounted multiple guns.

So as not to embarrass myself further I checked ahead to see if you have the various revolver cannons in the spread sheet. [;)]

Just look at the air type weapons. There are a number of multi-gun systems in there.

So for the F-100 Super Sabre I had four x M39A1 with an initial SA value of 5.

I looked at the Soviet two and four barreled 23MM and bumped the M39A1X4 to an SA value of 8, or one point for each extra barrel.

For the .50 x 6 I bumped the SA value from 4 to 6 as a guestimate mostly.

BTW I also added an AP value of 2 for the 20mm rounds. I notice that the .50 has an AP value but the western 20mm's do not.

I'll check the 20mm data and see which is messed up. I'm doing data updates/fixes for 2.04 so a good time to point out errors or wtf's.