05-26-2016, 08:15 PM | #41 | |
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Re: Recoil for Single-Shot Weapons
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The old French 75(not the drink, the gun) was the first to have a pneumatic firing brace. In a sense it did not reduce the recoil(a person who for some unexplainable reason was tied to the breech would still have his ribs cracked). It did however keep it from being kicked out of position, thus allowing the crew to keep firing without reaiming. And no I don't know why they named a drink after a gun. Maybe the hangover felt like listening to a French 75 firing all day.
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05-26-2016, 08:52 PM | #42 | |
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05-26-2016, 11:50 PM | #43 |
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Re: Recoil for Single-Shot Weapons
Actually pretty close to my guess. Though it was chiefly favored in allied bars when the other kind of french 75 would be aimed at the Germans. I suppose that makes as much sense as the German officer in Casablanca wanting one.
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05-27-2016, 12:52 AM | #44 | |
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It's when you start breaking that down into it's constituent parts, and giving it edge situations you get weird results such as 13 rounds giving +3 to hit weather it's at 2 yards or 2000 yards (and the different implications it has for both ranges). etc etc There have been various tweaks on that though. I think I still like leveraging MinST* here though as that stat is closer analogue to felt recoil (and compensating for it). But as I said above Rcl, MinST, FA rules are all a bit of a mix of overlapping effects an problems IMO. And yes your point about not rolling for each round is exactly right too! *and working up some kind of firing ST for mounts that don't involve a human firer's ST Last edited by Tomsdad; 05-27-2016 at 08:07 AM. |
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05-27-2016, 08:01 AM | #45 |
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