RE: [DL] The LeMat Undertaker

["Clint Black" <cblack@ohtinc.com>]

>Now that the listserv is restored, I wanted to post some stuff I've been
>talking to Chris McGlothlin about.... (yeah, yeah, dangling
preposition....)

dangle... dangle... dangle...


>Seemed to me that the LeMat seems a little underpowered, and even with the
>Undertaker version, it still seems a little bit underpowered.  I mean, this
>is a big honkin' gun folks.  Then it hit me, this thing is shooting a .40
>round, and even though the derringer shoots the same sized round, shouldn't
>the LeMat be packing a little more "ooommph" to it?  No, looking at the
>marshal's screen, the derringer has better damage.
>
>So why is this particular round doing only 2D6 damage?  Yeah, I've heard
all
>the rhetoric about how it ain't the size that matters, it's the cartridge
>load, etc., but surely this thing should be doing at least 3D6 like the
rest
>of the pistols.  Does anyone have any historical info that the LeMat was
>underpowered?


I'm a little confused here.  No.  I'm more than a little confused here.  ;-)
Where are you getting your information on the LeMat?  I thought (if I recall
correctly) that Law Dogs described two versions of the LeMat.  One was a .36
caliber that did 2d6 damage, and the other was a .40 caliber that did 3d6
damage.  And maybe I'm imagining it, but I thought they had something
similar in the DPHB.


Clint Black

"You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Ghost Rock, son. Nothing else in the
world smells like that. I love the smell of ghost rock in the morning. You
know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over
I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' Yank body. The
smell, you know that sulphurous smell, the whole hill. Smelled like...
victory. Someday this war's gonna end..."