6.8mm Stats

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Icelander

If you increase Rcl to 3, you've made this a 7.62mm weapon, only worse.

No, because you haven't increased the weight of the weapon. Recoil is a function of bullet weight, bullet velocity, and weapon weight. 6.8mm increases bullet weight, reduces bullet velocity (but by considerably less than weight is increased), and doesn't much affect weapon weight; therefore it increases recoil. You could also generate stats by taking a 7.62 weapon, reducing damage by 1d, increasing ammo capacity, and reducing recoil to 2, but then you're dealing with an 11 lb weapon instead of a 7 lb weapon. I chose to describe it as based on a 5.56mm because the people hawking the concept of 6.8mm (and 6.5mm, and 6mm) generally have a theory of converting existing assault rifles to the new caliber by replacing the chamber and barrel, rather than purchasing entire new weapon, and therefore the base frame would be a 5.56mm assault rifle (with a modest increase in weight due to a larger barrel).