| From: | Scott Peterson herne454@*******.net |
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| Subject: | Was Grenades and Explosives. Now Bounmding Frag |
| Date: | Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:36:23 -0700 |
>> Airtimed grenades are irritating in that FASA never old us what they
>> actually do in game terms. I think it was Rob Watkins who came up with
>> probably the best solution: roll for scatter etc. as normal, then draw a
>> striaght line from firer to the eventual "impact" point, and the
grenade
>> explodes at a distance equal to that between firer and target, but along
>> this line. (Unfortunately ASCII won't allow me to draw a diagram for this
>> very well, as that would make this a lot clearer.)
Gurth Im presuming you have heard of the 40mm Bounding HE Frag grenade the
Army Ragners are issued...This might be FASA's attempt at portraying this.
As I used them in the Army I found them rather wonderfull at certain
applications. Namely what the round did was that it hit the ground, an
impact sensitive charge propelled the grenade up about 3-6 meters and then
exploded in the air. Was wonderfull for mass concentrations of open troops
and for clearing out trenches. Just immaginge a bouncing betty that you can
thump out 300+ meters.
Is Scott tough? Yes, Talented? On occasion, Brave? Oh Certainly! He is also
erratic, irresponsible, accident prone and a constant threat to public
Safety. The trick is to keep him pointed in the right direction.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the exhisting government, they can
exercise thier constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary
right to dismember or overthrow it. ---Abraham Lincoln
