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Message no. 1
From: Shadowdancer <BRIDDLE@*****.VINU.EDU>
Subject: Hello once again
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 12:12:44 EST
Hoi chummers! I have finally been able to mail again. After three
weeks of Christmas hell, the college decided to have its turn. Then
the fraggin mail service in this library decided to be difficult. On top
of that, because IBM is a slower then snail-mail, we have not yet
recieved Mosaic. The slottin drive is to small.

But I am not bitter... : )

So how goes it on the list? What interesting topics are on today's
menu? Here is one that is bothering me. The assult cannon is a very
large gun that fires shells. It has a damage code of 18D. The ammo
is explosive based. Why does it not have an AOE? That blast has to
go somewhere. Or is the ammo simply large bullets?


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And suck the blood, of all Thy race.
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Shadowdancer<BRIDDLE@*****.VINU.EDU>
Message no. 2
From: Marc A Renouf <jormung@*****.UMICH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Hello once again
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 15:15:04 -0500
On Tue, 24 Jan 1995, Shadowdancer wrote:

> So how goes it on the list? What interesting topics are on today's
> menu? Here is one that is bothering me. The assult cannon is a very
> large gun that fires shells. It has a damage code of 18D. The ammo
> is explosive based. Why does it not have an AOE? That blast has to
> go somewhere. Or is the ammo simply large bullets?

Do not be confused by the term "shell." The Panther Assault
Cannon (or any assault cannon for that matter) essentially fires a big
bullet, probably on the order of 20mm. It is basically just a big
explosive bullet, designed to explode and fragment on impact with its
target, be that meat or vehicle or brick wall. It is a direct-fire
weapon, not something like a mortar. The explosive tip in the Panther's
"shell" is relatively small, and probably would not have any significant
area of effect unless it impacted on a wall and sent tiny shards of concrete
everywhere. But even that would be directed mostly in the direction of
the blast as the round punched through the wall. It's orders of
magnitude less powerful than a missile or even a grenade, but it's all
going in the same direction a supersonic speeds with a good chunk of mass
behind it, hence the higher power level, but no AOE.
Oh, for a historical perspective, assault cannons are nothing
new. In WWII, there were the Simonov PTRS and Bofors Anti-tank rifles.
Both of these were (semi) man-portable rifles that fired 20mm
armor-piercing anti-tank rounds. Very mean. Definitely a "Grade A
bang-bang."
Message no. 3
From: Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Hello once again
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 12:42:21 -0700
>menu? Here is one that is bothering me. The assult cannon is a very
>large gun that fires shells. It has a damage code of 18D. The ammo
>is explosive based. Why does it not have an AOE? That blast has to
>go somewhere. Or is the ammo simply large bullets?

the head I believe is a shaped charge explosive and as such it only does damage
in the forward direction.

It will probably do something similar to blow through or something

Look Mah!! New Sig

Nightfox

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Message no. 4
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Hello once again
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 11:07:57 +0100
>the head I believe is a shaped charge explosive and as such it only does damage
>in the forward direction.

A shaped charge explodes like any other, and so has a blast radius. If you
ever watch a film of a missile impacting on a tank, you'll see that it
_does_not_ only damage things in front of it. It is just that the force of
the explosion is used to deform a copper cone, which, put simply, punches
through whatever is in front of the warhead.
As for assault cannon rounds, I think they have small explosive warheads,
too small to have an effective blast radius, but large enough to do serious
tissue damage.


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