Re: [HoE] Flamethrowers in HOE?

[Michael <martin_etc@yahoo.com>]

Or they find the remains of a toy store, get a Super
Squirter, go to a Hardware store, get some lighter
fluid and a cigarette lighter, fill the Super Squirter
with lighter fluid, put the lighter in front of it,
light the lighter, pull the trigger on the
'squirter...

--- Darrin Bright <darrin@neobright.net> wrote:
> Patric Nylén wrote:
> > 
> > I'm marshalling a HOE campaign and (to my
> regret...) none of the players have a junker
> character. One character have a serious craving for
> a flamethrower. Are there any official (or
> inofficial) rules for flamethrowers in HOE? I
> suppose there are rules for the Mad Scientist
> variety in WW, but I don't own those books, so how
> do I handle flamethrowers in HOE rulewise, either
> ghostrock-powered junker devices or the ordinary
> kind, perhaps using spookjuice as "ammo"? Any
> suggestions?
> 
> Use the Flamethrower rules from Deadlands, and just
> ignore the
> Reliability roll. Keep the range the same, but you
> might want to tweak
> the fuel consumption a bit, since more modern
> flamethrowers might make
> use of pressurized tanks and better fuel. Now, I'm
> not an expert, but my
> guess is modern flamethrowers use jellied
> gasoline/kerosene (i.e.,
> NAPALM), which is very easy to make. You could make
> it in your kitchen,
> for example... ingredients should be cheap and easy
> to get ahold of,
> even in a post-apocalypse setting. 
> 
> You could use Spookjuice, but that'd be kind of
> wasting an extremely
> expensive resource... I mean, you could probably use
> 100-year-old Scotch
> as tractor fuel, but at $500 a bottle is that the
> best way to get rid of
> it when a $5 bottle of the cheap stuff will work
> just as well? 
> 
> If you did use Spookjuice, my guess would be you'd
> have to "jell" it
> somehow. The thicker the liquid is, the less it will
> atomize out of the
> nozzle and the better range you'll get. Otherwise,
> if the liquid is too
> thin, it'll just turn into vapor which won't go as
> far and might even
> drift back towards the user.
> 
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