From:	Marc Renouf renouf@********.com
Subject:	things that go boom in the night!
Date:	Wed, 3 Mar 1999 08:45:55 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Gurth wrote:

> > Probably use of different explosives.
>
> In which case it's strange that normal grenades don't use that... Yes, I
> too can think up lots of different explanations for that, most of them
> probably involving the higher cost of mini-grenades, but still, _I_ find
> it strange.

The way I handle this is to assume that "standard" grenades (i.e.
those that inflict 10S) are in fact smaller than modern day grenades, and
about the same size as a launched minigrenade. The big ol' pineapple
grenades thrown by hand are the IPE grenades (15S). I don't have my
books in front of me, but I don't think they make an IPE mini-grenade,
which would make sense.
As such, the size issue is more or less taken care of if you
assume that what you or I would think of as "grenade size" is actually
an IPE, and that what SR considers a "standard grenade" is much smaller.

Marc