08-07-2020, 11:38 PM | #31 | |
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Re: Star Wars Stormtroopers in Real Armor [Ultratech]
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Guns for people in serious armor need to have serious armor themselves, when there are cheap-and-easy Acc 12 weapons on the table.
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08-08-2020, 12:12 AM | #32 | |
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Re: Star Wars Stormtroopers in Real Armor [Ultratech]
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08-08-2020, 12:13 AM | #33 | |
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Re: Star Wars Stormtroopers in Real Armor [Ultratech]
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08-08-2020, 12:31 AM | #34 | |
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Re: Star Wars Stormtroopers in Real Armor [Ultratech]
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If a police officer finds an unlicensed civilian with LC 2 weapons, they are going to arrest them. If a police officer finds any civilian with LC 1 weapons, they are likely going to call for SWAT. If a police officer finds anyone with LC 0 weapons, they are probably calling the ATF, DOD, FBI, and anyone else who will answer the phone. |
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08-08-2020, 12:32 AM | #35 |
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Re: Star Wars Stormtroopers in Real Armor [Ultratech]
True enough, but that then makes storm troopers elite mooks.. :)
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08-08-2020, 12:38 AM | #36 | |
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Re: Star Wars Stormtroopers in Real Armor [Ultratech]
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At lower power using 50 points or arguably only 10 points as ST 12 and HT 12 are really more general purpose making you quite unlikely to die until you are kind of full of holes is a sign that Gurps combat for any combat focused character is not very deadly until you start talking about heavy weapons. |
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08-08-2020, 12:50 AM | #37 | |
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Re: Star Wars Stormtroopers in Real Armor [Ultratech]
HEMP if they could get them, otherwise Shaped-Charge, with HE and Thermobaric for soft targets.
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08-08-2020, 12:52 AM | #38 |
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Re: Star Wars Stormtroopers in Real Armor [Ultratech]
If you use the Bleeding rules, TL5+ weaponry can be quite deadly, regardless of HP and HT (they just generally linger around longer before expiring if they do not receive medical attention). For example, a ST 15 and HT 15 character that takes 45 points of damage is rolling against a '6' to avoid bleeding.
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08-08-2020, 01:04 AM | #39 | |
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Re: Star Wars Stormtroopers in Real Armor [Ultratech]
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But on the other hand Submachine gun licenses are and have been basically impossible to get and I know several people who tried and failed. And they are LC 2 weapons. But additionally pistol caliber carbines(that is a semi automatic pistol cartridge firing longarm) that are LC 3 in Gurps, at least were classified as Submachine guns and were similarly impossible to get a license for.. (The gun laws here have since changed quite a lot, now you even have to be at least 18 years old to buy a gun I think...) As for explosives: in the 1990s my uncle went more than once to the police station and said that he needed to blow up some tree stumps and got a permit to buy explosives without having any proof or training or such. Further the police did not specify on the permit how much he could buy... Nowadays you need to have a training and certification at minimum. But my point thus being that what is legal and what is not is always setting determined, not generic rules. |
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08-08-2020, 01:10 AM | #40 |
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Re: Star Wars Stormtroopers in Real Armor [Ultratech]
That is probably as much a change in LC as it is a change in CR. You saw that occur with the precursors to explosives in the USA after the Oklahoma bombing. The precursors, and explosives, probably dropped one LC.
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