| From: | GMPax@***.com GMPax@***.com |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Viper Errata |
| Date: | Fri, 12 Mar 1999 20:07:06 EST |
writes:
> <SNIP>
> >IIRC FL
> >rounds CANNOT mix with silencers, etc, save in the Viper. Which is it's
> own,
> >specific, special advantage. :-) Silenced FL.
>
> I don't recall this from anywhere.
It only makes logical sense. I do know, guns using FL or shotguns firing
standard shot ammunition, in SR2 at least, could NOT use silencers and sound
suppressors. I'm without my rules for a week (forgot to fetch them from the
University gaming club again, and they have a 1-week break, argh!), but if
someone could check, I think there was mention ...
I concede this may have been a HR that made SO much common sense, I have
fudged it in mymemory into the realm of the official. <g>
Still, think for a moment. Those silencers use a tubular brush arrangement to
contain the gasses and flash of a gunshot, right? Well, a bullet can bull
it's way through the brushing inside the silencer. Think about what would
happen if the bullet was a cluster of fibers, each one no larger (and maybe a
bit smaller!) than any one bristle of those brushes? Got a problem there, the
FL's are going to get caught up inside the silencer.
No wound to your target, AND your silencer is wrecked. Not a desireable
outcome.
By and large, except the Viper, anything using FL ammunition is INCAPABLE of
being silenced; that's why the original question arose on AOL, where I asked
FASA to clear up how hte Viper worked, and presented the "multiple single-
fired large flechette" version as my thought of the ONLY way it could work.
FASA agreed, so, here we are, several DOZEN posts later. :-)
BTW, did you miss GridSec quashing this, mostly? THIS post at least adds
something (it clarifies who said what, in recent terms). <g> Hopefully
enough to keep me safe, eh?
Sean
GM Pax
