From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@s...>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 11:46:43 -0400
Subject: SG Great War/WW2
Adrian said: Tommy Guns are short range and low-power (compared to, say, a proper assault rifle or a battle rifle). They use pistol ammunition. They would properly be used as a submachinegun. Something like FP 2 or 3 and Impact d6. And probably range limits too - like they could only fire in the first 2 rangebands or something. [Tomb] Disagree. Imp D8 (I'd considered D10, but D8 reflects the fact that they are stopped by armour). A .45 ACP from a Thompson does a _lot_ of tissue damage. (Take a look at how they rate heavy pistol in SG2). I'd say FP3 - SMGs are rather scary close up. I'd say close only since that's what SMGs now have IIRC? in SG. Also, I think characterizing the .303 and .30-06 on the same impact scale is interesting. I'd have said D8 and D10 respectively. I rate the M2 Browning as 2D6 (or D12) FP and 2d6* or 2d8* or d16 Impact. RFACs are crappy against infantry and this weapon is not. If you want to reflect differences in era, I'd upshift body armour by a level. A d4 fatigue is probably D6 versus WW1 weapons. A D8 partial armour is probably D10, etc. Modern armours defeat antique rounds better than normal ones. (I disagree with Adrian's appraoch because a.45 ACP does a lot of damage to an unarmoured figure and his approach doesn't handle that well). The Bren should have better FP than the BAR because of accuracy as well.