From: Barclay, Tom <tomb@b...>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:06:30 -0500
Subject: PA & Such
[Bri] With a little previso. No small arms weapon (even those with asterisk (*) next to them) can have NO effect, except supperssion, agianst Class-2 armor or better (SG p.37). [Tomb] No small arms can have NO effect? Ergo all small arms have at least some effect against class 2 armour? <I think this is wrongly stated> And there are not too many armor class-1 tanks (at least in DS2). So you may want to go back to having the PA have a heavy weapon or a larger mix of the AT variant of your PA. [Tomb] I think you could define anything as a "heavy weapon" or "point fire" variant that could affect tanks. I think a good justification is the ESU PA carrying a "point fire" railgun which I believe can probably punch into a tank. And GMS/P have a d12* impact and I'm _quite_sure_ these are meant to be able to attack things like a tank. [Tomb] The limitation you are referring to (I had thought) applied only to normal small arms (such as the FSE rifle, etc). They are meant to have limited anti-armour capability versus soft targets or armour-1 targets, but none vs. heavier armour. Whereas anything with an asterisk (such as a IPG or GMS) is actually meant to have a chance (though a slight one) versus larger vehicles. If not, my IPG AT section looks pretty stupid... (2 x Infantry Plasma Gun with D12* impact). I think it can attack armour 2 and greater targets (though D12* isn't a big threat even on major impacts to anything greater than armour 2). If I'm wrong, someone please straighten me out.