>This weapon is the Magnum Bolt Rifle. It is compact, at 60cm and
>beefy at about 6.8 kg loaded. A fat weapon.
A heavy weapon. I say if you're going to do it, go all the way and make it
a squad support weapon, with a belt feed and longer barrel.
>At 60cm its short enough to be a sort of heavy blaster. It fires a round that
>>has as its base a 20mm x 32mm Straight ETC cartridge.
20mm???? This is not a personal weapon! If anything, it would take the
modern grenade launcher's role.
Calling it a "heavy blaster" IMHO conjures up Han Solo dashing thorugh
Imperial corridors with a large energy handgun. THis thing is what squad
leaders use to bust a fortified position before rushing forward.
>The rules bending is this. One of the available ammo aside from Heap and
>DS is a Plasma Pulse Cartridge that sits on the end of the ETC
>cartridge. It is ballistic tipped. The ETC cartridge initiates the
>"reaction" in the PPC. A micro piezo electric fuze in the ballistic cap
>discharges the plasma stream upon impact.
Sounds to me like a very unstable weapon, especially if it jams (I don't
have FF&S but the reality checking says: it may jam and blow up in your
face when the plasma just *has* to go).
>Don't ask me how it works.
Too bad. I'm asking. The gun initiates the reaction. The fuse releases it.
What if the round cooks off prematurely? Where does the energy go? What if
nearby electromagnetic interference sets it off?
>It is in effect a ballistically
>delivered plasma pulse.
The round would have to include a little magnetic force-tunnel thingy to
project the plasma forward properly. Otherwise it would go splat and
vaporize everything around it, rather than focusing on the target.
>You get the range of a slug weapon
>with the Pen of a Plasma weapon.
This may be the range of a sidearm but this thing is more than a sidearm,
and doesn't come close to the range of a proper battlefield rifle.
>a rifle firing 20mm x 32 mm Heap ammo can do.
That is not a rifle. That is a Very Heavy Machinefun or a Light Autocannon.
>Battle Dress trooper at TL 10 coming down and seeing these guys in
>T-Shirts with some short compact weapon and while theyre laughing hearing a
Unless of course he fires a weapon with greater accuracy at range and kills
the fools who wear no armor. If he's really paranoid, he calls in an
orbital mesopn strike. Have a nice day. ;)
Creativity over Originality.
Consistency is a Flaw.
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