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From: Jonathan Hurley <jhurley1@******.STEVENS-TECH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Sniper Rifles
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 11:06:19 -0500
Sascha Pabst[SMTP:Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE] wrote:
>On 3 Dec 96 at 13:41, Gurth wrote:
>[snip]
>> Military snipers get trained to fire at human-size targets at ranges of
a
>> kilometer and more.
>But...but.... they can't!
>
>Extreme range for sniper rifles is 400 meters!
>(*happy I still have my asbestos suit on*)
>


I fixed this in my game by changing th eway scopes worked. Instead of
recuding the range TN, they extended each rage band by Range*(scope rating
+1)

IE, the extreme range of a sniper rifle became 1.6 km

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