01-13-2018, 05:41 PM | #201 |
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Re: Logistically Viable Weapons AtE
I would fire a single shot, or a failure drill, because ammo conservation is important (and training works, I guess).
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01-13-2018, 05:43 PM | #202 | |
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01-13-2018, 06:03 PM | #203 |
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Re: Logistically Viable Weapons AtE
I guess it depends upon how far "over there" is. Five meters? I'll keep pulling the trigger until they fall down. A hundred meters? I'm far more likely to hit with one aimed shot than just by spraying a dozen in the general direction. That's for amateurs. If they're at two hundred meters and dodging? Yes, you'll never get a perfect shot so fire as fast as you can reacquire a decent sight picture.
So it depends. I think both of you are just making different assumptions than the other.
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01-13-2018, 06:41 PM | #204 | |
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I'm using myself as an outlier to disprove the claim that the vast majority of trained soldiers are less able to shoot at people to hit.
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01-13-2018, 06:44 PM | #205 | |
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I certainly didn't mean to imply that everyone always sprays bullets like a video game character with unlimited ammo.
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01-13-2018, 06:49 PM | #206 |
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Re: Logistically Viable Weapons AtE
Even if you assume that 9/10 (or whatever) of the shooters have Reluctant Killer and are just suppressing, you still need to ride hundreds of yards through a kill zone, with all that entails. If either the rider or the horse panics, that entire element is hors d'combat.
And the same logic applies equally to the calvarymen too, 9/10 of them (or whatever) should have problems with delivering effective attacks if they do make it through. Last edited by sir_pudding; 01-13-2018 at 06:53 PM. |
01-13-2018, 09:06 PM | #207 |
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Re: Logistically Viable Weapons AtE
That depends heavily on my priorities. Reality is, most of the time turning the other guy dead is in the 'nice to have' category, not the primary objective (which is likely something like "make him stop shooting at me and vacate the objective").
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01-14-2018, 09:12 PM | #209 | |
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01-15-2018, 02:06 AM | #210 |
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If you want to prototype and debug all the stages before you start any production, and you accept extra weight and cost at all those stages, then yes, you can do that. But those compromises seem to conflict with the struggles normal to an AtE setting.
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