Message no. 1

From:	David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>
Subject:	Reflecting Grenades
Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:49:26 -0700

I was just working on an idea for barriers when this came to mind.

Most of the damage from a grenade comes from the fragments (wire, ball
bearings, shot, pieces of steel, etc) that it launches into the air,
right? How can a barrier fully reflect this damage?

Per the rules if a standard grenade (10S) goes off 3 meters from a
barrier and the barrier doesn't go down, a 7S reflects off the wall
(which then degrads as it travels back to the target).

IMHO the fragments shouldn't be reflected to that extent and the power
of the reflection should be reduced (maybe by half).

Now, if the explosion is a pure one (a block of C4 for example) then
it's energy is 99% shockwave in which case it should be fully
reflected (assuming the barrier doesn't go down).

And on a related point, if the barrier takes some damage, but still
stands, doesn't that mean that it's absorbed some of the energy and not
all the energy of the explosion is reflected? Shouldn't the reflected
energy of the explosion be reduced if it damages the barrier (say,
Power - number of boxes of damage done)?

-David B.
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