Re: [HoE] [HoE]Silly question

[Doug Stalker <dougs@technologist.com>]

Machine-gun Kelly wrote:

> > It can be done.  Check out http://www.prairienet.org/guns/big/gallery.htm
> > for a picture of the maadi-giffen .50 BMG pistol.
>
> Yes, I remember seeing that. Like the picture, you'd want to have a HUGE
> recoil brake on the end of the gun. Simply cutting the barrel down would
> be painful, I imagine.
>

Doesn't the barret have some sort of muzzle break on the end to begin with?

>
> > According to one website, the maardi griffen pistol is acurate to 3000
> > yards.
>
> The Range Increments in HoE, I've noticed, aren't really as long as in
> real life. The .50 BMG round, IIRC, has an accurate range of 2km.
> Probably farther in a good rifle, farther still with an accurate
> marksman. More of game mechanics than anything else.

A lot of games (both ocmputer and RPG) seem to give short ranges for weapons.
Jagged alliance 2 was terrible for this, I'm sure a pistol can shoot further than
10-15 metres.


Although in HOE there doesn't appear to be any limit to how far a bullet can
travel.   with an open ended system, it would be possible to get quite a bit of
distance.   I can see Stone taking out the posse by firing bullets over the
horizon.

While messing around with the juker rules we created the Anti Squirrel Assult
Pistol.  The size of  a handgun, it is a compact railgun doing 1d4 damage per
round, ROF 40 with a 500 round clip, 1 drain per burst, range increment 500.

This could then be fitted with a truck sized computer aiming/recoil compensation
system to allow chracters to shoot at orbital stations with only a -6 penalty.
Add a cyborg with a targeting computer, and you can start chipping the paint off
those old orbital platforms!


> IIRC, Curtis "Big Fifty" Harriman has a .50 BMG pistol, 6 round
> magazine, 4d10 damage, and a specially reinforced wrist "to handle the
> recoil of this bad puppy". Former Texas Ranger can that hunts down other
> cans that have gotten out of line.

There's the official damage reduction then.