Re: [DL] [d20] Gatling Pistol Questions

[Lorgryt <lorgryt.detroll@verizon.net>]

At 05:00 AM 2/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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> > The Agency says that pulling the trigger fires off three
> shots.  I guess
> > that's all they need.
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> Fair enough, thanks.
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> > > 2- If the pistol can only fire bursts, does the 12-shot
> capacity refer
> to
> > 12
> > > bullets or 12 bursts (36 bullets)?
> > 12 bullets.
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> Hmmm. That doesn't seem like very much. Sure, four 3-round bursts can do
> a
> lot of damage, but it looks like you'd need to reload waaay too often.
> In
> d20, the average Agent gets two attacks a round if he doesn't move
> around
> too much. The picture of a Gatling pistol in the d20 book seems to
> suggest
> that the drum magazine could hold more than 12 bullets.

It isn't very much.  It is kind of the point, I think.  You
can't shoot up a whole town without reloading.  More over, it is a
new idea, a recent invention, and that is one of it's flaws.  If you
gave it a 36 round capacity (12 3-round bursts) it unbalances the
game.  If you want something like it the Mauser C96 was mass
produced in 1896, but invented a few years before.  It's
predecessor, the Borchardt was marketed in 1893, but invented in the late
1880's.  You could move the years forward a decade or more and it
would make sense.  Either of these machine-pistols makes the
Gatling-Pistol obsolete.  

The Mauser "Broomhandle" had a 10 round clip and a 32 round
clip (it was made in the first year of production). It was a selective
fire automatic allowing standard bursts or single shot.

The Borchardt had a 10 round clip, and they made a 30 round one after a
couple of years. It was a selective fire automatic as well, and also
allowed full auto or single shot.

Both were expensive by the standards of the times.  The Borchardt
cost $200, but was engraved with gold inlay on a heavy blued frame. The
Mouser was $75, and the 32 round clip cast $5.

All of this is generalized to some degree because I don't want to get out
my weapons  history books at this hour of the morning. sorry if it
isn't accurate enough.

[SKULL] Lorgryt (Maj. Gen.)

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