10-18-2020, 07:44 PM | #21 |
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Re: A successful 3 round burst
If you're using different ammo types with significantly different ballistics, you have to pick one type you're preferring, and everything else just automatically misses.
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10-18-2020, 07:51 PM | #22 |
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Re: A successful 3 round burst
That's probably wrong considering (A) the mixture of tracer and non-tracer rounds which have moderately but appreciably different ballistics, (B) the possibility that you are firing single shots from a semi-auto or similar weapon, and (C) the traditional buck-and-ball loading.
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10-18-2020, 08:35 PM | #23 | |
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Re: A successful 3 round burst
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10-18-2020, 09:17 PM | #24 | |
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Re: A successful 3 round burst
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10-18-2020, 09:49 PM | #25 |
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Re: A successful 3 round burst
My definition of 'significantly different' is "will make the difference between hitting and missing". If it isn't significant enough to do that, you can ignore it. If it is significant enough, you have to choose one or the other to focus on, and the bullets using the other ballistics profile just miss.
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10-18-2020, 10:46 PM | #26 | |
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10-20-2020, 03:48 PM | #27 | |
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On Gurps modelling such: the useful breakpoint in GURPS is 5, so a "GURPS optimized" weapon would be 5 shot limited to allow for all the options and still save ammo over longer bursts. So a 3 round burst weapon would actually waste one shot if you try for the 5 shot bonus as you would need to shoot 6 in that case. |
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10-20-2020, 05:43 PM | #28 |
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Re: A successful 3 round burst
Not really. It's almost entirely a function of range, with slight adjustments for weather. It does not, however, in any significant way resemble the rules given in Tactical Shooting (to be fair, it's probably not possible to get physically realistic results in a simple fashion).
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10-20-2020, 05:54 PM | #29 | |
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Do you have any criticism of the TS rules other than that they assume that you can hit with differing rounds while you prefer to assume that you can't? Because there might be good criticisms but I don't think you've specified any.
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