A Hydran weapon first deployed in Y173, developed
following the loss of the DG HMS Serenity in action against a Lyran Wildcat BC.

It is essentially a one-shot hellbore in a T-bomb casing.

It is treated exactly as a T-bomb except;

- the using ship must have active fire control and a lock on the target

- each H-bomb requires one point of allocated or reserve power (any source) to activate on the turn it is used. It may be held in subsequent turns for one point of allocated power; if this is not supplied, it burns out, doing no harm to anything

- it is always announced as an 'H-bomb' and if laid from a shuttle bay it is not hidden

- its target must be recorded in writing before it is laid

- on the direct-fire segment of the second impulse after it was laid it fires its hellbore, destroying itself in the process. This delay cannot be reduced or increased

The shot is in standard (ie not overloaded) enveloping mode, must be fired on the first hellbore firing opportunity, and benefits from no ECCM. It is limited to range 10 (it is a modified fighter weapon). All normal hellbore rules (myopic range, ESG interactions etc.) apply.

Each H-bomb costs 8 commander's option points and replaces one T-bomb. There are no dummy H-bombs (...or are there?)

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica) on Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 09:51 am: Edit

Well, nuts. This is (more or less) a captor mine. I was hoping for a sort of hellbore-mine; that is, when it goes off, it damages everything in range like a mine, but the damage (10 points) is enveloping like a hellbore. Now that would be just all manner of fun...and can you imagine the fun of a large (35-point) version? [evil grin]

By Geoff Conn (Talonz) on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 04:27 pm: Edit

Just by reading the thread title I thought this might be a Hydran planetary seige weapon, like a greatly improved version of transporter artillery for them.

Guess not.