| From: | Robert Watkins robert.watkins@******.com |
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| Subject: | Viper Errata |
| Date: | Tue, 9 Mar 1999 13:03:13 +1000 |
> | Anyone else have a suggestion as to why the Viper can use heavy pistol
> | ranges if it's firing the same ammo as a light pistol loaded
> with flechette?
>
> Because flechettes, being more aerodynamic than solid slugs, can travel
> further than solid slugs given equivalent energy.
Care to read the question again, Rat? ;)
Two guns: One a Viper (firing flechette, natch), the other a standard light
pistol, also loaded with flechette.
How come the Viper shoots further? And coincidentally shoots the same
distance as a heavy pistol loaded with flechette?
An answer is that the Viper is a heavy pistol, that just happens to weigh
the same as a light pistol. And it gets away with it because it fires
flechette rounds. This is supported by the fact that the Viper is located in
the Heavy Pistol section of the tables. (Oh, and it's not a machine pistol,
anymore than the Ruger Thunderbolt is a machine pistol. Machine pistols have
a greater ammo capacity)
> | And I repeat: in SR1, it may have been an errata. If the same 'mistake'
> | finds its way into two subsequent versions, there exists the slight
> | possibility that it's meant to be that way.
>
> And there exists greater possibility that it is a cut and paste error when
> the original author of SR1 and SR2 says that the book is wrong.
And again, I'd like to think FASA can get it right in at least two tries.
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