Re: [DL] bursts per action [MUNCHKINS]

["Lord Jobe" <lordjobe@bigfoot.com>]

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From: "Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>
To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: [DL] bursts per action [MUNCHKINS]


> In the Weird West, a few steam powered Gatlings can get up to 6 or 9 ROF,
> IIRC.  However, you don't often have to worry about recoil from these, since
> they're hugely heavy and require a large steam source... like a train or
> tank/armored steam wagon.  Not something you'd walk around with.  Being
> securely mounted to the side of a vehicle takes care of recoil.
> (Personally, I'd disallow something as flimsy-sounding as a "tripod"  to
> hold up a steam powered Gatling.  But that's me and my game.)
>
> Jeff Y.

Something as "flimsy" as a tripod holds up an M-2 Browning .50 cal machine gun very well, and I think it
would have a lot more recoil than a steam gatling.

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