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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth
If you look at the numbers, they aren't actually that weird.
5mm and 7mm are obviously truncations of the most common modern rifle calibers. The reduction isn't negligible, but it's only around 10%. <snip>
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I don't know what counts as a "weird" caliber, but I don't think these calibers are mere stand-ins for their slightly larger real-world cousins. They seem to do about 10% less damage rather than just using stats for those common modern rifles. I'd be interested to see canonical stats for those 6.8mm or 0.27 in or whatever modern rifles.
For black powder weapons I wasn't suggesting having 5mm or 10mm examples, more like 10mm and 15mm versions of say the Kentucky rifle whose official stats in HT are for 0.45 in. I think higher calibers for spherical bullets should have longer range holding muzzle velocity constant due to a higher ratio of mass to cross-sectional area but I'm not certain.