01-16-2021, 07:26 AM | #11 |
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Re: Gurps: The Mandalorian
It's probably a Polearm weapon with one end doing Thrust/Impale or Swing/Crush and the other Swing/Impale. Exact figures like MinSt, weight and damage bonuses are going to be guesses.
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01-16-2021, 07:38 AM | #12 |
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Thats what I get for posting while half asleep XD
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01-16-2021, 09:00 AM | #13 |
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Moving on to weapons (and remebr those Spoiler! warnings).
Mando's pistol is a Heavy Blaster (at least in the way that Han's is) and using the UT stats for such a weapon is probably okay. Mando's longarm (that thing that looks like a cross between a Trapdoor Springfield and a tuning fork) is harder to classify. It had a an electric shock function and that was apparently tunable to megafauna levels. Mando described its' use on Jawas as "disintegration" and it did indeed leave very little behind. It's not a UT Disintegrator because Mando's gun had little effect on big things like the AT-ST or the Krayt dragon and the UT weapon would have..I looked at the special effect a couple of times and I would describe it as more of an "implosion" or something similar. The closest fit in UT might be the Tachyon Displacer though that's TL12^ and UT doesn't give you those in rifle size. It also appears to rely on one shot power cartridges and that looks like what the things Mando carries in various places on his armor are. Oh well, SW is full of anomalous uber-tech. Undoubtedly made by some alien race somewhere. Mando uses a number of what are probably the equivalent of UT 25mm Limpet Mines though probably in Plasma rather than HEAT. Mando's wrist-mounted flamethrower is nto much like UT's Flamers at all. Not enough range but probably more damage on max setting. The "Whistling birds" are likely a less baroque version of UT's Smart Shurikens. There was a special effect associated with the giant Gamorrean axes and I believe that I saw the same visual from Mando's knife one time. Call it a "vibroknife". The term has appeared in SW related material in the past. We see Fett's armor launch what was called a "Proton Torpedo" in past material but would be adequately simulated by one of UT's 64mm missiles. Boba Fett's ship (i.d. ed as "Slave One" in past material) used a previously unseen weapon against two TIE Fighters. You can't call it a "depth charge" so I guess it has to be a Spatial Charge. It's a large explosion though probably not nuclear. The SW galaxy seems to be blanketed by a Nuclear Damper df Unusual Size. In other character's hands we see a number of previously unseen blaster pistol models, a blaster sniper rifle and a blaster LMG. Also an E-web blaster cannon (and called by that name). Also and for only the second time ever the stun setting on a Stormtrooper's blaster smg.
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01-16-2021, 06:03 PM | #15 |
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The novelization of AotC called them "sonic charges", though to be fair any shockwave type 100mm or larger warhead should work. Other than in an atmosphere, we only see it used in the asteroid ring around Geonosis (accompanied by a very untuned bass guitar chord), so I'd ASSume it can work in a trace atmosphere.
Then again, space physics is different in SW than in RL.
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01-17-2021, 05:33 AM | #17 | |
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But then the same film also had them being taken out by a guy with a stick, so... yeah, really it is just cinematic amour which does exactly what it needs to for the demands of the plot. |
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We see a few hand-held weapons shooting what appears to be full auto in RotS on Utapau, when Ben is fighting Grievous, but those I'd classify as either blaster rifles, "light repeating blasters" (their LMG variant), or maybe even "heavy repeating blasters" (for a GPMG variant). Any rapid-fire blasters lighter than the standard rifle size I'd consider either a "repeating carbine" (a term occasionally seen in novels, comics, and vid-games) or a PDW. (Honestly, my Sith and Wesson line of blasters may give you the variety you're looking for.)
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01-17-2021, 08:03 AM | #19 |
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Yes, they were usually called blaster "carbines" in previous material but they are too small and/or spend too much time with their stocks folded to be be what I'd actually call a carbine. The only consistant feature to RW weapons called "carbines" is that they are short rifles by the standards of the time.
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01-17-2021, 11:00 AM | #20 | |
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Alternatively they could be considered stocked pistols ('pistol-carbines').
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