From:	Caric <caric@********.COM>
Subject:	Re: Heavy pistol damage
Date:	Mon, 7 Jul 1997 18:04:28 -0700

| You forget that some people today - my wife, for instance - found 9mm a
| handful, and .45ACP downright painful to fire.

Very good point, that's part of what I was saying I see a .50 cal as being
your Ruger Superwarhawks and the like, which in our game still do 8M
moderate damage, but penetrate better than a normal HP.


| Any improvements you get out of handguns will be in bullet design.
| Remember, the FBI accepted the 10mm as a more effective calibre, then
| dropped it when it proved to be too much of a handful for most agents to
| accurately fire. Doesn't matter how deadly the bullet is, unless you can
| hit the target with it.

True.

| I don't have a problem with 9mm/.45/.40cal being the standard calibres
| in 2058; sixty years ago the standard calibres were 9mm, .38 and .45,
| and .357 Magnum was a speciality round for the large and robust shooter
| only.

I can agree with you as well, but it's purely an academic arguement anyway
as we can assume any advancements have been made accross the board as
opposed to only HP's. Therefore the differences should remain pretty much
the same whether larger rounds are used or not. The heavy pistol is still
a deadly weapon on our game because we don't walk around looking like tanks
in layered armor all of the time. If your campaign doesn't use or
disallows layered armor then HP damage at 6M is still beefy enough. Throw
some ex explosive ammo or APDS in that bad boy and you're really tough.

-Caric

"These pretzels are MAKING ME THIRSTY!!!!!"