| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: Heavy pistol damage |
| Date: | Tue, 8 Jul 1997 12:51:39 +0100 |
> Actually, the offical reasoning why Pistols do 9M as opposed to 6M is their
> use of "Firepower Ammo". No specs on firepower ammo, it just does a better
> job and is only manufactured for pistols.
>
> FASA's rationale was that pistols were not powerful enough when they uped the
> damage codes to 9M. There had to be a level playing field.
Firepower ammo was introduced in the first edition SSC to create a
difference between light and heavy pistols -- back then the only
difference was 1 point in Power Level (light pistol 3M2, heavy pistol
4M2). Firepower ammo increased that to 3M2 vs. 6M2, but then in SR2 they
went overboard and added 3 to both Power Levels, as well as feeling the
need to reduce light pistols from M to L. IMHO just one of those two
measures would have sufficed, while both are overkill.
Furthermore, by that reasoning even though Firepower rounds were the
standard for heavy pistols by 2053, there would still be regular ammo of
less power, not to mention that explosive, flechette, and all the other
ammo types would be based on the regular round.
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