Ok, here we go again. These weapons use powder loadings similar to that in
real-life ammo when such exists.
Machinetools 1b
Featured Weapons: 5mm Revolver
7mm Revolver
9mm Revolver
9mm Magnum Revolver
On ammunition: The ammunition used in these these weapons is somewhat
standardzed. All calibers are pure metric calibers in millimeters, only the
Solomani use the inch based calibers common on old Terra (with one exception,
see the 9mm Magnum Revolver below). Originally Imperial forces used the old
classic calibers like 5.56mm, .357 and 9mm Parabellum, but following the
creation of the new dress code, Emperor Styryx issued a directive that all
Imperial acquisitions of new weapons had to be pure metric caliber weapons. It
was enforced by patching the software used by the Imperial Ministry of Defence
so that it didn't accept any decimals in the calibre. With the Imperium only
buying pure metric weapons, the major defence contractors soon followed and
redone their whole line to the new standard. This new standard was still
gradually making it's apperance fifty years later during the Solomani Rim War,
and some analysts claim that the less than optimum performance of some Imperial
units during the ground campaign on Terra was due to ammunition incompatibility
between regular and colonial forces, the latter which hadn't upgraded to the new
ammunition.
The "I" designation for pure metric calibers originated within the
Intersellarms Megacorp - the official name was "P" for "Pure", but that usually
got confused with the Solomani "Parabellum". Witty sophonts use to claim that
the "I" now used by viritually everyone don't mean "Imperial" as Interstellarms
claims but "Interstellarms".
While all pure metric caliber types of ammunition produced by Interstellarms
is called "I" there are a small number of other letters for ammunitions usually
associated with a specific service, like the "N" for the Navy line of snub
pistols and "M" for the IMCs 9mm Magnum.
Techlevel is indicated by appending "-TL" after the ammunitions name.
5x10mmRI-7 AP is thus a techlevel 7 5x10mm Imperial armor piercing round for a
revolver. Extraimperial orgin use standard designations such as 'Da' and 'Zh'.
On discounts: They are as given in good old 'Mercenary', ie on Pop 9+ worlds,
guns and ammo can be had at a discount. Guns are packed in cases of 20 (assume
that weapons in cases weigh 25% more and are 100% larger than normal). Buying a
full case will give 20% discount, 5 cases 40% and 50 cases for 60%. For ammo
those limits are 20, 100 and 1000 cases. Most cases are further divided into
paper or plastic boxes with each box containing enough for one magazine full.
For guns with small magasines (less than 30) one box generally contains 50
rounds.
Remember that it's easier to buy many (over a thousand) weapons than just a
handful, because most manufacturers are more used to dealing with large
entities.
On attenuation: Some weapons are of so low power that they have an
penetration/attenuation listed as 0/2. In those cases halve *damage* after each
two range bands.
On compatibility: When using weapons and ammunition of different techlevels,
the combination will behave as the worst of them. In some cases, hightech
ammunition will lead to higher chanses of malfunction but this is detailed in
the text on each weapon.
All prices are in local credits as defined in Striker. TL G didn't exist back
then so I have added it and expanded on the lower end. The local credits concept
means that, due to lower demand of their goods compared to the high tech worlds
of the imperium, low tech backwaters have weaker currencies than high tech trade
hubs. The concept of local credits don't seem to be around anymore, but on the
other hand, I haven't seen it explicitly discarded either:)
Value of one local credit in Imperial credits depending on local TL and port:
STARPORT
TL A B C D E X
G 1.20 1.15 1.10 - - -
F 1.00 0.95 0.90 - - -
E 0.90 0.85 0.80 0.75 0.70 -
D 0.80 0.75 0.70 0.65 0.60 -
C 0.70 0.65 0.60 0.55 0.50 -
B 0.60 0.55 0.50 0.45 0.40 -
A 0.50 0.45 0.40 0.35 0.30 0.30
9 0.40 0.35 0.30 0.25 0.20 0.20
8 0.30 0.25 0.20 0.15 0.10 0.10
7 0.20 0.15 0.10 0.08 0.05 0.05
6 0.10 0.08 0.05 0.04 0.03 0.03
5 - 0.05 0.03 0.02 0.01 0.01
4 - 0.03 0.01 0.01 - -
3 - 0.01 - - - -
Revolver 5mm
There are no compatibility problems with the ammunition to this gun on
techlevels 5 to 9. Wildcatters that use tech 15 powder have only themselves to
blame. The ammunition used is the 5x10mmRI, it is sold in cases of 2000 rounds,
(Lead: 1liter 5kg Cr233) (AP: 1liter 4kg Cr466) (DS: 1liter 2kg Cr699) (APDS:
1liter 2kg Cr1398)
TL Item Rds P/A Dmg Rng Aut Dng Sig Recl Diff Len Wt Prc Fail In A I/D
5 Lead 6 0/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.11 0.33 57 0.50 +4 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.07 14
Lead 6 0/2 3 0.01 0.7
6 Lead 6 0/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.11 0.33 59 0.50 +4 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.06 14
Lead 6 0/2 3 0.01 0.7
AP 6 1/1 2 0.01 1.4
7 Lead 6 0/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.11 0.33 61 0.50 +4 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.06 15
Lead 6 0/2 3 0.01 0.7
AP 6 1/1 2 0.01 1.4
9 Lead 6 0/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.11 0.31 64 0.50 +4 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.06 16
Lead 6 0/2 3 0.01 0.7
AP 6 1/1 2 0.01 1.4
DS 6 1/2 2 0.01 2.1
APDS 6 2/2 2 0.01 4.2
Revolver 7mm
There are no compatibility problems with the ammunition to this gun on
techlevels 5 to 9. The ammunition used is the 7x13mmRI, it is sold in cases of
1000 rounds, (Lead: 1liter 7kg Cr117) (AP: 1liter 5kg Cr234) (DS: 1liter 3kg
Cr351)
TL Item Rds P/A Dmg Rng Aut Dng Sig Recl Diff Len Wt Prc Fail In A I/D
5 Lead 6 0/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.12 0.50 60 0.50 +4 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.08 15
Lead 6 0/2 3 0.03 0.7
6 Lead 6 0/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.12 0.50 63 0.50 +4 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.08 15
Lead 6 0/2 3 0.03 0.7
AP 6 1/2 3 0.02 1.4
7 Lead 6 0/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.11 0.48 66 0.50 +4 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.08 16
Lead 6 0/2 3 0.03 0.7
AP 6 1/2 3 0.02 1.4
9 Lead 6 1/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.11 0.46 70 0.50 +4 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.07 17
Lead 6 1/2 3 0.03 0.7
DS 6 2/2 2 0.01 2.1
Revolver 9mm
All ammunition for this weapon at tech levels 4 to 9 is fully compatible with
no increased risk of malfunction. The ammunition used is 9x14mmRI and it is sold
in cases of 1000 rounds, (Lead: 2.6liters 14kg Cr136) (AP: 2.6liters 10kg Cr272)
(DS: 2.6liters 6kg Cr408) (APDS: 2.6liters 6kg Cr816).
TL Item Rds P/A Dmg Rng Aut Dng Sig Recl Diff Len Wt Prc Fail In A I/D
4 Lead 6 0/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.22 1.16 67 0.50 +2 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.15 17
Lead 6 0/2 3 0.07 0.8
5 Lead 6 1/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.22 1.19 73 0.50 +2 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.14 18
Lead 6 1/2 3 0.08 0.8
6 Lead 6 1/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.22 0.80 161 0.50 +2 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.14 39
Lead 6 1/2 3 0.07 0.8
AP 6 2/2 3 0.05 1.6
7 Lead 6 1/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.22 0.79 178 0.50 +2 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.13 43
Lead 6 1/2 3 0.07 0.8
AP 6 2/2 3 0.05 1.6
9 Lead 6 1/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.22 0.77 197 0.50 +2 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.13 48
Lead 6 1/2 3 0.07 0.9
AP 6 2/2 3 0.05 1.8
DS 6 3/2 3 0.02 2.7
APDS 6 4/2 3 0.02 5.4
Revolver 9mm Magnum
Although officially pure metric, the 9x22mmRM ammunition is in reality of
.357 caliber. The IMC managed to protect it from the metric purification of the
weapons by claiming that the revolver wasn't a weapon but a part of the uniform.
It is further notable as being the only widely available revolver that have
versions made at high techlevels. Due to recoil purposes the higher techlevel
models have different amounts of waste weight (TL12 50g, TL13 160g, TL14 280g,
TL15 420g, TL16 570). Full ammunition compatibility between all techlevels was
one of the original design requirements and it has been fulfilled despite the
fact that they originally only covered techlevels 5 to 13. 9x22mmRM ammunition
appear in cases of 1000, (Lead: 3.3liters 17kg Cr233) (AP: 3.3liters 12kg Cr470)
(HE: 3.3liters 7kg Cr670) (DS: 3.3liters 7kg Cr670) (APDS: 3.3liters 7kg
Cr1400).
TL Item Rds P/A Dmg Rng Aut Dng Sig Recl Diff Len Wt Prc Fail In A I/D
5 Lead 6 1/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.20 1.09 181 0.50 +2 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.23 45
Lead 6 1/2 3 0.08 1.0
6 Lead 6 1/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.20 1.09 204 0.50 +2 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.22 50
Lead 6 1/2 3 0.08 1.1
AP 6 2/2 3 0.06 2.2
7 Lead 6 1/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.20 1.07 231 0.50 +2 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.21 56
Lead 6 1/2 3 0.08 1.1
AP 6 2/2 3 0.06 2.2
9 Lead 6 2/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.20 1.04 262 0.50 +2 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.20 64
Lead 6 2/2 3 0.08 1.2
AP 6 3/2 3 0.06 2.4
DS 6 4/2 3 0.03 3.6
APDS 6 6/2 3 0.03 4.8
10 Lead 6 2/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.20 0.97 290 0.50 +2 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.19 71
Lead 6 2/2 3 0.08 1.2
AP 6 3/2 3 0.06 2.4
DS 6 4/2 3 0.03 3.6
APDS 6 6/2 3 0.03 4.8
12 Lead 6 2/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.20 0.92 312 0.50 +2 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.17 77
Lead 6 2/2 3 0.08 1.3
AP 6 3/2 3 0.06 2.6
DS 6 4/2 3 0.03 3.9
APDS 6 7/2 3 0.03 5.2
13 Lead 6 2/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.20 0.92 335 0.50 +2 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.15 82
Lead 6 2/2 3 0.08 1.3
AP 6 3/2 3 0.06 2.6
DS 6 5/2 3 0.03 3.9
APDS 6 7/2 3 0.03 5.2
14 Lead 6 2/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.20 0.92 360 0.50 +2 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.12 88
Lead 6 2/2 3 0.08 1.3
AP 6 4/2 3 0.06 2.6
HE 6 1/- 4 0.03 3.9
DS 6 5/2 3 0.03 3.9
APDS 6 8/2 3 0.03 5.2
15 Lead 6 2/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.20 0.92 385 0.50 +2 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.09 94
Lead 6 2/2 3 0.08 1.4
AP 6 4/2 3 0.06 2.8
HE 6 1/- 4 0.03 4.2
DS 6 5/2 3 0.03 4.2
APDS 6 8/2 3 0.03 8.4
16 Lead 6 2/2 3 Lng - - Med Med/R Hand 0.20 0.93 411 0.50 +2 1 1/1
Drum 6 0.07 101
Lead 6 2/2 3 0.07 1.4
AP 6 4/2 3 0.05 2.8
HE 6 1/- 4 0.03 4.2
DS 6 5/2 3 0.03 4.2
APDS 6 8/2 3 0.03 8.4
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