Editing Airships of AMSP (section)

==New Modifications==
If you want to build your own, you'll need a copy of Savage Worlds Pulp Gear Toolkit. There are some changes to the build rules. Zeppelins can use rockets and missiles just like airplanes.  There are no airplanes in this world as of yet. Airships dominate at this time and it will take years before someone invents a feasible heavier than air aircraft. Because of that, no Airstrips, Flying Platforms, Hooks and Cranes, or Hangars can be used as modifications.

'''Airtrain Couplers:''' Cost: $200 per chassis size, Spaces 1 per chassis size. These allow zeppelins to connect to another so equipped zeppelin, forming an air train. The nose coupler doubles as a docking probe for use at an airfield or shipyard. 

When you assemble an air train, you need a "locomotive" zeppelin and several air cars. The locomotive zeppelin's top speed and acceleration drops depending on the size of air car that is attached to the air train. For every air car of the same size as the airtrain, speed drops by 20, acceleration drops by 5. For each envelope size one smaller, speed drops by 10, acceleration drops by 2. For each envelope that is 2 or more sizes smaller, speed drops by 5 and acceleration drops by 1.

'''Tandem Envelopes:''' Cost $800 per chassis size, Spaces 2 per chassis size, -1 Handling (Maximum -4), ACC/Top Speed -2/-10. (The spaces required are for both airship frames) Need a bigger airship that Gargantuan? Put two of them together! However, it's not going to be as maneuverable as a single envelope airship. You can join up to three envelopes in this manner. You can also join different size envelopes together, as long as the second and third envelopes are only one chassis size different from the center airship's chassis size. Acceleration and top speed are calculated from the larger chassis size. If you add an extra engine, you must add an extra engine to all envelopes to gain the benefits of having an extra engine.

For example: You can mate two Huge chassis airships on either side of a Gargantuan chassis size airship. Each Huge chassis would use 8 spaces and the Gargantuan would use 20 spaces for the tandem connections. But, you'd gain a total of 270 spaces, less 36 spaces for the connections, and of those spaces, 70 can be used as weapon spaces. Handling would bottom out at -4, and speed would drop to 20, and acceleration to 1.

'''Grapnel Cannon:''' Cost $800, Spaces 2. This contraption is used to snare and grab other airships. Uses two different grappling heads: A '''cable grabber head''', designed to snare and grab a hold of cables, struts or other open air structures. The other head is the '''envelope ripper''', a collection of blades that can slice open the envelope of an airship and then snag the tatters, holding on to the other ship. This head can also be used to snag cables and superstructure, though the blades can slice cables and wooden or bamboo superstructure if not used right.

To use, you must first hit the other ship and the roll to see if the grapnel caught. Catching cannot be bennied. 

It is a -2 to hit the cabling and open superstructure of an airship. There is no modifier for hitting the envelope of a ship. Once you hit, roll a 4 or under on a d10 when using the cable grappler head, and a 4 or under on a d8 for the envelope ripper head on cables and superstructure. On a roll of 1 envelope ripper does d6-1 points damage to the airship's structure and doesn't catch hold of the airship.

The envelope ripper head does 2d8+2 damage to penetrate the envelope of another ship. If it penetrates, roll a 6 or under on a d10 to grapple. If you roll a 1, the grapnel rips a bigger hole in the airship's envelope for another d8+2 points of damage.

:Grapnel Cannon, Range 5/10/20, Damage 2d8+2*, RoF 1, AP 2* 

''* Envelope ripper head