| From: | Paul Jonathan Adam <Paul@********.DEMON.CO.UK> |
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| Subject: | Re: Mil-spec armor and HV rounds |
| Date: | Sat, 10 Jun 1995 01:55:54 GMT |
> availability codes for the equipment you're talking about. Military
> Armor from the Fields of Fire sourcebook is just short of impossible to
> acquire under any circumstances. You could try to get it from a Fixer,
> but with an availability of 18 for the lightest stuff the probability of
> having one is 1 in 216(that's 3 sixes in a row). Or, you could try to
> steal one from the military(hahahahaha). Basically your players should
> NEVER acquire this stuff.
Oh, no! Let them have it! I post elsewhere as to the endless amusement a
GM can have with players in mil-spec. Apart from the fact it takes a
minimum thirty minutes to get into/out of. :-)
If a player really, really wants this stuff, there's a good run in finding
where some might be: intercept a convoy, raid an isolated base, whatever.
Then there's the job itself: then evading some annoyed corps/military.
And they still can't use it in any practical way...especially if it
starts to malfunction.
> As to the super-guns such as the Super-Mach, the Assault Rifle
> and the LMG, it should be noted that they accept no barrel-mounted
> accessories. That means no gas-venting systems to reduce recoil. You
> could mount Shock Pads and Bipods on the heavier weapons but the
> Super-Mach is hopeless. You try firing 15 rounds with only 3 points of
> recoil reduction and see what you hit(besides the ceiling). Of course
> you could hook up a gyro-mount but that would look silly now wouldn't it?
I treat them as having half recoil, and use a different recoil system: so
basically you can crank out 6-round bursts for no penalty or hose 15 in
autofire at +4s. So? 6-round bursts are no more dangerous than Savalette
Guardians, and you're emptying the magazine very quickly indeed. And
what the players have, the NPCs have the next version of.
--
When you have shot and killed a man, you have defined your attitude towards
him. You have offered a definite answer to a definite problem. For better
or for worse, you have acted decisively.
In fact, the next move is up to him.
Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
