Lesseee... Hmmm....
I prefer to manually decrease the AV (in MegaT) instead of dividing by
two.
My AV table is:
Jack 0 (1) Hostile Envir Vacc Suit-9 4
Mesh 1 Hostile Envir Vacc Suit-12 5
Flak Jacket 2 Hostile Envir Vacc Suit-13 6
Cloth 3 Hostile Envir Vacc Suit-14 7
Ablat 1 [4] Combat Environment Suit 4
Reflec 0 [8] Combat Armour-11 5
Vacc Suit-8 2 Combat Armour-12 7
Vacc Suit-12 3 Combat Armour-14 9
Vacc Suit-14 4 Battle Dress-13 10
Body Pressure Suit 1 Battle Dress-14 14
Hostile Envir Vacc Suit-8 3 Battle Dress-15 18
No longer do people chance to take hits from Gauss rifles :-).
Craig (who, among other sins, mangled my name) makes the mistake of
overrating the Glazer Safety round. It is, indeed, a very damaging
round, but it lacks in stopping power. For short ranges, I'd prefer the
9mm 147 grain SJHP over any combination of DS and Glazer.
Thus - high calibre pistols have an edge in self-defence situations,
with ranges below 25m.
The Gauss rifle, on the other hand is a military weapon. It has
absolutely no use (worse, it is absolutely deadly) in a self-defence
situation of any range in a civillian context. It is intended to lay
down high rate of fire at a reasonable range with low recoil and high
penetration - wounded soldiers are better than dead soldiers, especially
if the needles are hard to remove.
Other weapons have specific niches - the body pistol, the integral
laser gun and others.
As for weight versus price - 3G is VERY wrong here. Here are prices
and weights of four 9mm pistols I know. Prices are in I$ - Israeli
dollars (i.e. Israeli sheqels converted to US$ at US$1=IS2.35).
Gun Price Weight
CZ-75 I$510 990gm (exc ammo, 1150gm with ammo)
S&W 5904 I$851 780gm (exc ammo, 990gm with ammo)
Glock-17 I$595 550gm (exc ammo, 800gm with ammo)
IMI Jericho 941 I$425 950gm (exc ammo, 1250gm with ammo)
It cannot be said that the Glock is the least advanced - indeed, it is
MORE advanced than either the Jericho or the CZ and possible more
advanced than the Smith and Wesson. Of the guns, two (S&W and Glock) are
US manufacture, one is Israeli (Jericho) and the one (CZ) is Czech.
Now what? :-)
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