Re: (2442) Of Miniguns and machinepistols...

In your letter dated Sat, 22 Jun 91 21:39:17 PDT, you wrote:
>
> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 91 21:39:17 PDT
> From: Mark F. Cook [email removed]
> Subject: (2442) Of Miniguns and machinepistols...
>
> From an MT combat standpoint, the M-134 is just a 5.5mm Gatling Gun-8 (pg.
> 77 - MT Players Manual) but with a much higher ROF.  (The ones in the manual
> are unrealistically low anyway.) Even the 30mm Avenger could be treated as
> a VRF Gauss Gun, but with a smaller ammo capacity.  The Pen/Atten and
> Damage are about right.  However, I'd jack the Autofire targets *way*
> up to, say, 20 or 30.  Sound excessive?  Well, that's an Avenger for you. :-)

I have noticed the problem of low ROF for machine guns, too (and a corres-
ponding problem of _high_ ROF for small autocannons at low TLs), but have
been sliding by assuming that the multiple barrel MGs and the VRF Gauss
Gun are all in the "1280, 7 targets" category.  I have this horrid suspicion
that that is supposed to mean 1280 rpm, which is still low.  You'd want to
fire in fairly short bursts most of the time anyway.  Of course, you still
can't manpack the thing in Traveller because the weights for those weapons
are nowhere to be found (short of the semi-legendary Striker miniatures rules)
...


> Later,
> 	- Mark C.

Rob Dean