| From: | Paul Gettle RunnerPaul@*****.com |
|---|---|
| Subject: | APDS |
| Date: | Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:57:48 -0500 |
At 07:07 AM 2/23/99 -0700, David Buehrer wrote:
>The smaller size also has less friction, making it more accurate over
>long ranges.
>
>Basically you end up with a high velocity, high mass round with a
small
>cross section that has good armor piercing ability and low drop off.
Lower drop off? That's something that a Smartgun system would have to
account for when it calculates the bullet's trajectory, right?
Detail Oriented GMs could exploit this: switching out regular rounds
for APDS loads in a Smartgun equiped firearm should require switching
to a different balistic profile. Of course with all the other gun mode
changes that are handled by Smartgun being nearly automatic (free
action) over the Direct Neural Interface of the Smartlink, this
probably wouldn't be too much of a hassle either.
Another possibility is that different loads of ammunition have their
balistic profiles encoded on the casing (similar to how filmspeed
information is encoded on canisters of 35mm film in today's time).
Just another detail to throw into the game.
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