RE: [HOE] grenade question

["McKay, Ashley" <Ashley.McKay@dva.gov.au>]

Actually, I'd say that the thing was about 1/2 real and 1/2 Hollywood.

It's common practice for terrorists to create large shrapnel bombs by
surrounding a large amount of explosive with even larger amounts of nails,
glass, ball bearings, tin cans, anything sharp (the family cat?)   When the
bomb goes boom, the shrapnel rips (and I do mean RIPS) apart anything close
to it.

This thing would probably be more of a hindrance than a killer (especially
as the nails don't fully penetrate plasterboard), designed to deny access to
an area or to delay pursuers.

I'd peg it (game wise) as some short of modified claymore.

The Junker rules allow for the creation of these sorts of weapons, but it
would be a delicate line to walk...

Ashley.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Theo McGuckin [SMTP:tsm@jlab.org]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 12, 2001 2:45 AM
> To:	hoe@gamerz.net
> Subject:	Re: [HOE] grenade question
> 
> > Do y'all remember the "nail/flechette" grenade from the kitchen scene
> > in the Swartzenegger movie "Eraser"?  What exactly is that thing?  Is
> > this a real explosive device or a Hollyweird bit of make believe?  
> > Any info you could give me on it would be appreciated.  Thanks in
> > advance.
> 
> Well it doesn't look complex enough that it couldn't exist (if it doesn't
> already). It has:
> A delayed fuse: all grenades have it, this one seems longer than others
> A weight: simple enough, think Weeble-Wobble(tm) on steroids
> A primary charge that: 	a. fires the top of the grenade, into the
> air
> 			   because of the weight
> 			b. starts the secondary fuse
> A secondary fuse: this one's really short, long enough to get in the air.
> A secondary charge: this is surrounded by the nails and blows them outward
> 
> The grenade was pretty big, so none of this seems unreasonable to fit in
> the package.
> 
> For Hell on Earth:
> You could probably treat it like a normal grenade, but with the effects of
> "frangible". I.e. +2 damage per die, but armor totally stops it (the nails
> didn't even go all the way into the plaster walls).
> 
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