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[HANS]

My latest post is

Tactical Shooting: Ronin, in which I dissect a scene in another one of my favourite films.

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HANS

[evileeyore]

Originally Posted by HANS

My latest post is

Tactical Shooting: Ronin, in which I dissect a scene in another one of my favourite films.

Cheers

HANS

Nice! I always wondered why only Vincent reloaded (of the 'good guys'). I'm betting he reloaded so Sam and Spence wouldn't have to!

[HANS]

Originally Posted by evileeyore

Nice! I always wondered why only Vincent reloaded (of the 'good guys'). I'm betting he reloaded so Sam and Spence wouldn't have to!

Almost certainly the result of bad continiuity. Sam and Spence fire so often, Sam must have reloaded at least once, Spence two or three times! Vincent's reload makes no sense at that point, he is not even half through his magazine. As fond as I am of the film, a lot in this scene does not make sense. Some of it can be attributed to "battle stress", eg the fact that Vincent completely ventilates the only guy who is NOT a threat, or that he attempts a Ranged Rapid Strike with little chance of hitting. These are the kind of mistakes you make under stress. Others are weirder; why do they go into the tunnel? How do they escape through the tunnel, when it is blocked by the car and the bad guys?

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HANS

[HANS]

I've added a new post: Gun Fu: The Matrix takes a detailed look at a scene from that film.

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HANS

[HANS]

Latest post:

Tactical Shooting: Justified, in which I dissect a scene in that telly show.

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HANS

[Daigoro]

Originally Posted by HANS

Latest post:

Tactical Shooting: Justified, in which I dissect a scene in that telly show.

Cheers

HANS

Is it the knife vs pistol scene, testing the 21 foot rule?

No? Oh... that scene's good too.

[HANS]

Originally Posted by Daigoro

Is it the knife vs pistol scene, testing the 21 foot rule?

No? Oh... that scene's good too.

In the context of my write-ups, not really. Nobody does anything . . .

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HANS

[HANS]

Thursday is GURPS day!

This time I have Tactical Shooting: The Sopranos.

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HANS

[Mailanka]

If I haven't said it before, I really appreciate these breakdowns. I find they really explain a lot about the mechanics you've designed, they cover topics I like (Justified!), and they inspired me to do the same in my Psi-Wars, to get an idea of how I want the combat to play out (Obviously, my mechanics will be much more cinematic than what you mostly do, but the idea of breaking down a fight to get an idea of how your mechanics should play out in a game, is the same).

[HANS]

Originally Posted by Mailanka

If I haven't said it before, I really appreciate these breakdowns. I find they really explain a lot about the mechanics you've designed, they cover topics I like (Justified!), and they inspired me to do the same in my Psi-Wars, to get an idea of how I want the combat to play out (Obviously, my mechanics will be much more cinematic than what you mostly do, but the idea of breaking down a fight to get an idea of how your mechanics should play out in a game, is the same).

Thanks! Really, I've been doing this for at least 25 years. I've always been heavily inspired by movies and telly, and always worked trying to recreate them in games -- not literally, as that would be boring, but in spirit. So I have been "gun-spotting" (the kind of thing IMFDb does nowadays, although I don't like their results very much), statting movie props, and finding ways to recreate specific stunts in movies with the rules for ages. You'll find this in my old fanzine, in almost all my books (in different ways, of course), in many of my Pyramid articles, etc.
Really, what I'm trying to do with these writeups is to show off how the rules look in action. That's sighted shooting. That's a double-tap. That's a 2-second reload with Fast-Draw. Etc.

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HANS