04-30-2020, 05:36 PM | #21 |
Icelandic - Approach With Caution
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Reykjavík, Iceland
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Re: [AtE]Best bang for your Warlord buck?
Two things. First off that seems to have been largely prior to WWI, and secondly it seems to have been a training standard not an "actual expected to happen in battle" standard.
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04-30-2020, 07:11 PM | #22 |
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: New Zealand.
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Re: [AtE] Best bang for your Warlord buck?
What about this
The warlord irate Irene has been working on producing weapons for her soldiers. This has been an ongoing process with iterative improvement as the gunsmiths' skills improve and more resources are acquired. All the guns use two types of ammunition. Either reloaded old world ammunition or a newly crafted blackpowder cartridge somewhere in the .40 to .50 range. (Pick an early pistol cartridge for an idea on stats). This new cartridge is only made in one caliber and it is rimmed, it's a fairly simple ball of lead. The lowest level mooks have the earliest of the guns that Irene had made, double barreled pistols that are little more than zip guns, no trigger just pull the hammer back and let it go. Some unscrewing is required to reload. And the mooks have the usual assortment of tetanus inducing melee weapons to rely on. The next level of mooks have more advanced break action double barreled pistols with triggers. They still rely on melee weapons though some might have more than one pistol. Specialist mooks have weapons like break action carbines that fire the new round, or multibarreled monstrosities that fire volleys of bullets. Rebuilt and repurposed firearms are used by senior mooks, and these allow for all sorts of strangeness to be attempted in the pursuit of more firepower. Bent barreled break action bullpup shotguns are a real (if obscure) thing. If it had four barrels it might suit an underling of Irene. To plug some of the tactical holes that this weapon selection has there are a few power loading crossbows and other esoteric weapons. But also grenades, which serve as a primary weapon when the warlord wants something done NOW! The key thing is a progression of weapon development. The next level of advancement might be revolvers. Anyway, just some musings.
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04-30-2020, 08:37 PM | #23 | |
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Re: [AtE] Best bang for your Warlord buck?
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EDIT: I'll rummage around LT and the various HT firearm related tomes to get work-around stats. EDIT B: High Tech Adventure Guns pg 8 has some nice Derringers and Howdah guns... EDIT C: Just rediscovered this gem, Ian McCollum looking at some African poachers guns. To misquote Dexy et al, "...thank you Irene".
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05-01-2020, 12:44 AM | #24 |
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Re: [AtE] Best bang for your Warlord buck?
Quick aside query, dear hivemind; is there a conversion factor for smokeless ammo that has been handloaded with black powder?
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05-01-2020, 06:52 AM | #25 |
Join Date: Nov 2015
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Re: [AtE] Best bang for your Warlord buck?
Pyramid 3-88 has rules for black powder (Among other improvised or handmade parts of ammo) - -1 damage per die, and multiply Range by 0.9
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05-01-2020, 07:52 AM | #26 |
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: near Houston
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Re: [AtE] Best bang for your Warlord buck?
From a practical point, semi-automatic actions won't cycle reliably, so the gun will frequently have to be treated as a manual repeater.
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05-01-2020, 10:36 AM | #27 | |
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Re: [AtE] Best bang for your Warlord buck?
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05-01-2020, 10:54 AM | #28 |
Join Date: Sep 2018
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Re: [AtE] Best bang for your Warlord buck?
I think the trade off of being able to fire multiple rounds without reloading or being able to reload cylinders at a time rather than loading shot-by-shot make that effort worthwhile, again, if you have the resources to produce them.
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05-01-2020, 11:16 AM | #29 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: [AtE] Best bang for your Warlord buck?
If you have the resources, I think you upgrade directly to brass cartridges.
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05-01-2020, 12:03 PM | #30 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: [AtE] Best bang for your Warlord buck?
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Yes, you can make cases on a lathe fairly readily, for small numbers, but it's very slow work. You'll need a lot of skilled machinists and lathes to match the output of one reasonable drawing press, and they'll get very bored. On the upside, if you want bullet jackets, you can make them on the same equipment with different dies. Early history.
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