Adapting The Morrow Project to GURPS

[hal]

Point of Reference:

Glock 27 .40 S&W in 3e does 2d6 damage
Glock 27 .40 S&W in 4e does 2d6+1 Pi+

Glock 26 9mm Parabellum does 2d6+1 in 3e
Glock 26 9mm Parabellum does 2d6+1 pi in 4e

As you can see, the damages for the pistols are more or less comparable. So the DR values given in GURPS COPS (or GURPS CLASSIC COPS if you buy it as a PDF) should be sufficient for your needs for Level IIA and Level II armor types.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by mburr0003

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However, that DR 8 versus cutting has never set well with me*,

Flexible HT/UT armor is so good against Cutting so it will stop fragments efficiently. However, 4e probably does fragmentation wrong and this makes such armor unrealistically effective v. machetes.

If (as a simple fix) you change Fragmentation damage from Cutting to Piercing you can change the armors in question to Piercing/Everything else.

[midnight77]

Originally Posted by HANS

Again, the official stats for the Rheinmetall Rh202 and its ammunition are in Pyramid 3/53. The single-feed version in there is the one used in The Morrow Project. That article also details the V-150 Commando, and it even has a boxed text how to convert it into the version in The Morrow Project.
Practically all the other arms, ammunition, explosives, and other equipment are in High-Tech, except for the Stoner weapons, which are in SEALs in Vietnam. The SK-5 hovercraft, by the way, can also be found in SEALs in Vietnam.
In the original The Morrow Project, the protection level of resistweave is specified. It equals DR 14/5 in GURPS.

Cheers

HANS

Thank you very much!

[mburr0003]

Originally Posted by Varyon

Low Tech has an optional rule (I believe called Blunt Trauma and Edged Weapons, but on the forums it often gets referred to as Edge Protection)...

I know, that just always feels fiddly to me. I'd rather just change what the DR is listed as being good against rather than have a secondary rule everyone has to try to remember.

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Flexible HT/UT armor is so good against Cutting so it will stop fragments efficiently. However, 4e probably does fragmentation wrong and this makes such armor unrealistically effective v. machetes.

If (as a simple fix) you change Fragmentation damage from Cutting to Piercing you can change the armors in question to Piercing/Everything else.

Now that just might fix my problems. Switching fragmentation to pi+ (and removing 'cutting' protection from most "bulletproof" armors) might just solve that problem completely. Thanks!

[Rupert]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Flexible HT/UT armor is so good against Cutting so it will stop fragments efficiently. However, 4e probably does fragmentation wrong and this makes such armor unrealistically effective v. machetes.

If (as a simple fix) you change Fragmentation damage from Cutting to Piercing you can change the armors in question to Piercing/Everything else.

Or makes fragments have armour penetration of (0.5), which is how I'd change things - fragments aren't really piercing, as they tend to be jagged and sharp-edged and not leave nice little holes.

OTOH, kevlar is pretty cut-resistant. The problems kevlar vests had with knives was with them being used to stab - and that's impaling damage which GURPS specifically notes it as being weak against.

One amusing effect of this is that standard (impaling damage) arrows penetrate vests better than armour-piercing (pi(2)) arrows.