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From: Ray Macey <r.macey@*******.qut.edu.au>
Subject: Re: srun: grenades
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 09:25:53 +1000 (EST)
On Thu, 2 May 1996, HALOWEEN JACK wrote:

> I have beeen playing a PA with missile mastery for some time now and
> was wondering what would happen in the following circumstances.
>
> I have a throwing weapons skill of 10(15) and threw a grenade at a
> group of corpsec guards. I rolled the 9 success on the test and then
> rolled a scatter of 6 metres this means that the grenade landed at
> exactly the spot I meant it to land but with 6 successes spare.
>
> 2. As I have missile mastery, could I use the excess successes to hit
> the target with the grenade (say it was targeted at the front guard)
> in this case it would do 1/2 str light damage and have 6 successes.

This is the way I play it. I can't see why it wouldn't work. It makes a
grenade just that bit more deadly.

Ray.

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