06-04-2012, 05:42 AM | #21 | |
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Re: Why Sniper Rifles are so crappy in HT?
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06-04-2012, 06:29 AM | #22 | |
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Much the same would go for the Lee Enfield SMLE, the Mauser 98, Springfield '03 etc, etc....
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06-04-2012, 06:40 AM | #23 | |
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It accounts for grip, "accuracy" (as professional shooters would recognize the word, which would likely refer to strictly to how many MOA there are across a grouping of a given shot-size when the weapon is fired from locked down, pre-sighted rest on a bench), weight, trigger mechanics, and a host of other factors inherent to the weapon and it's accessories which combine to influence a shot. This is much like the distinction between RCL and Recoil or IQ and intelligence. |
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06-04-2012, 08:08 AM | #24 | |
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Les Baer offers up to a 1.5" at 50 yards guarantee on some of their 1911s which is about as accurate as a good AK or levergun. |
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06-04-2012, 08:30 AM | #25 | |
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High Tech p. 79 limits Very Fine (Accurate) to weapons with a base Accuracy of 4 or better.
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06-04-2012, 08:40 AM | #26 |
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Re: Why Sniper Rifles are so crappy in HT?
Are these figures theoretical ones based on a weapon clamped to a rest, or actual ones based on a skilled human holding the weapon? I'm no shooter, but I doubt that any handgun can be as accurate in practice as a decent rifle.
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06-04-2012, 08:53 AM | #27 | |
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...and they shoot it with one hand. |
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06-04-2012, 08:58 AM | #28 | |||
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Re: Why Sniper Rifles are so crappy in HT?
The sniper rifles in High-Tech are not "crappy" – the generic rules for improving Acc are overly generous. That has two reasons – one, due to the low granularity level of that stat, two, because players love to customize and had to be provided a rule to allow it. Realistically, there should be a different customisation scale for every single weapon, listing different cost modifiers etc. as well as individual limits (eg, certain guns cannot be made very fine (accurate)). However, that’s ridiculously complicated.
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06-04-2012, 09:01 AM | #29 |
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Re: Why Sniper Rifles are so crappy in HT?
The H&K PSG1 is guaranteed to shoot 50-round groups of 80mm at 300m. That’s 0.92 MOA. The comparable KAC M110 is only guaranteed to shoot 1.5 MOA, and note that most American rifles are only tested for 5-round or even 3-round groups (the smaller the group, the easier).
Of course, any decent bolt-action sniper rifle and some tuned 5.56×45mm semiautomatics shoot better than this – but for a rifle developed in the early 1980s, using an action that isn't really suited to high accuracy, this is pretty good. Cheers HANS
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