Grenades exploding on impact, Canon? Suggested house rules? |
Grenades exploding on impact, Canon? Suggested house rules? |
Nov 21 2003, 08:34 PM
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Senior GM Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,406 Joined: 12-April 03 From: Redmond, WA Member No.: 4,442 |
One of my players wants to outfit his grenade launcher with grenades that explode on impact, instead of bouncing nearby and then laying there till the next Initiative Pass or the end of the Combat Turn. I find on-impact as an option for Hand Grenades (p.282) but I don't find it for mini-grenades. Is this in any of the rule books? Do you use something like this in your game? Any house-rules you've imposed?
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Nov 21 2003, 08:36 PM
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Traumatizing players since 1992 Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,282 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 220 |
Nope, nothing canon about them working like that. Keep in mind that if you use them that way, the NPC's will use them that way also and this will DRASTICALLY increase the deadliness of grenades.
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Nov 21 2003, 08:43 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,138 Joined: 10-June 03 From: Tennessee Member No.: 4,706 |
The closest you get is the air-timed mini-grenades through the grenade link and smart link system.
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Nov 21 2003, 09:08 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
Actually, check the BBB of SR, page 118. Second column under "Grenade launcher minimum range"
Which, to my mind, means that a mini-grenade can be set to detonating on impact. Also, look at the description under minigrenades: BBB, page 282: paragraph under "Mini-grenades"
Between these two quotes, I'd say a character could tweak his launcher and grenades to operate on an "impact-detonate" basis. Although I'd be interested in the kind of damage code a target would get from being hit with an undetonated grenade. Besides "gawddamn ouch!"M. You might require a grenade launcher B/R skill if he wants to alter the weapon, although you can make a case for sticking with Electronics B/R for both the launcher and the ammo. -Siege Edited: Bloody typo |
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Nov 21 2003, 09:53 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 17-September 02 Member No.: 3,273 |
Didnt Arnie do that in T2? He was shooting the swat guys with teargas grenades at point blank range into thier bulletproof vests.
Ouch. |
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Nov 21 2003, 10:04 PM
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Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600 |
Do mini-grenades even bounce? I think they always explode on impact... Altought i'm very not sure
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Nov 21 2003, 10:12 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
Back has a good point -- insofar as I know, you roll scatter for thrown and launched grenades to determine where the weapon lands.
However, scatter refers to the drift of the launched grenade and relative inaccuracy of the weapon -- it doesn't imply a bounce. -Siege |
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Nov 21 2003, 10:16 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,213 Joined: 10-March 02 From: Back from the abyss. Member No.: 2,316 |
I would say you have to choose which grenade you want airburst or impact burst, maybe in 2060ish they can be both.
A list of currently availible grenades An airburst grenade doesn't have an impact fuse, and an impact grenade doesn't have a proximity fuse. But I can see in the future both being incorporated into the same grenade. |
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Nov 21 2003, 10:20 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,925 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 948 |
Page 282 Shadowrun 3
"Hand Grenades These grenades are small, self-contained packages of explosive, timer and detonator. They may be set to explode on impact, or any time from 2 seconds to 2 minutes." Now, how does the above statement work with the rule that all grenades detonate in the next combat phase? According to the above statement you can have a grenade going off after 60 combat turns. :| |
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Nov 21 2003, 11:21 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
I think that's an abstraction of the time the grenade spends in the air for impact-detonation.
~J Edit: and it's only 40 combat turns. |
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Nov 21 2003, 11:28 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 291 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 806 |
What he said. |
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Nov 23 2003, 01:28 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 596 Joined: 18-February 03 Member No.: 4,112 |
Ah, you can probably play the impact detonation grenade like a standard gunshot. That is, you roll your skill (Launch Weapons or Assault Rifles) to hit, and the opponent can roll to dodge. The only difference is that if you miss, or they dodge, then you'd have to determine scatter. I'd recommend using the normal rules for scatter, just that you couldn't adjust it with successes. For damage, I'd use the optional explosives staging rules, for which you use half of the grenade's power (rounded down) against TN4, two successes raise the damage level by one.
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Nov 23 2003, 03:27 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 |
In the case of a dodge, I would suggest counting the number of dodge successes past the hit successes on an inverted scatter chart starting at 1 meter. This way, the dodger has a good reason to throw a lot of dice into the dodge, as it means they scatter out of the area of effect.
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Nov 23 2003, 03:32 AM
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Creating a god with his own hands Group: Members Posts: 1,405 Joined: 30-September 02 From: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 Member No.: 3,364 |
I need Some of THESE :grinbig:
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Nov 23 2003, 03:36 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
Hah! I want to see the 40mm shotgun damage. :grinbig:
-Siege |
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Nov 23 2003, 05:36 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818 |
We were playing Systems Failure and a group member had a Mark 19. He just carried it around like an HMG until we realized the weight...
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Nov 23 2003, 07:39 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 476 |
What, it's lighter than Mother Deuce? And I never liked the idea that a launched grenade could be thrown back. When I have the option, I like to house rule that the delay between hitting and detonating is time of flight, ie, the delay of one initiative pass or end of round before detonation still exists, the grenade just isn't at the impact spot to throw back. |
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Nov 23 2003, 08:31 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,598 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Hong Kong Member No.: 4,253 |
Iirc , the impact fuses on 40mm (launched) granades are activated after the granade has rotated a few times (the grenade is spin-stabilized in flight). As for hitting someone with the unarmed grenage maybe 5 to 7M (stun). After the fuse is armed, an impact will set it off.
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Nov 23 2003, 09:37 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
I never bothered with that mininades going off in the next Init Pass crap. Unless we're talking about a very large, long-range arc, any nade from a GL will go off immediately, just like gunfire, in my games.
Yeah the Mk19 is lighter than the M2 (33kg vs 38kg), but that's still more than twice as heavy as the RPK HMG in the BBB. |
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Nov 23 2003, 12:22 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
i've seen a 40mm grenade go through an inch of plywood. 5 to 7M stun seems a bit weak, to me.
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Nov 23 2003, 12:34 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,665 Joined: 26-April 03 From: Sweden Member No.: 4,516 |
In fact, there IS something canon like that - just like TinkerGnome said: Air-timed Minigrenades!!!
(pg.32 of CC) "Grenade Link This grenade launcher accessory uses the distance to a target determined by a range finder and programs the mini-grenade to explode in the air after it has travelled a number of meters equal to the target distance. This automatic setting reduces a launched mini-grenade's scatter from 3D6 to 1D6. All mini-grenades can be timed in this manner. Air-timed mini-grenades explode in the Combat Phase in which they are launched." :grinbig: While not exactly exploding on impact, these are actually better since they explode at the range of the target, immediately. This mean that if you get 0 successes the grenade explodes within 6 meters from the target, with one success within 0-2 meters, and with 2 or more successes you have a dead-on hit. (Remember that you reduce scatter by 4 meters per success) This does, however, require a launcher equipped with both a range finder/smartlink combo and a grenade link - again as TinkerGnome pointed out. :elims: Simply resolve it like you would a regular shot, and apply the net successes to reduce scatter. If the dodger receives more successes than the attacker, either ignore them or apply them to the damage resistance test as if he had dodged against the blast. |
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Nov 23 2003, 12:50 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 611 Joined: 21-October 03 From: Yorkshire Toxic Zone Member No.: 5,752 |
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't it say somewhere that if you miss with a smartlinked weapon it doesn't fire? I'm getting that I think from the description of walking autofire between targets and how smartlinks don't waste ammo. It doesn't say anything specific I don't think about normal fire, but by logical extension it seems to fit. imho anyway.
What I'm getting at is that if this holds true, with 0 successes from the smartlinked rangefinder mini-grenade launcher the weapon wouldn't fire, so the grenade therefore wouldn't scatter. But if you got a single success it would scatter by 1d6m before going off in the same phase as it is launched. |
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Nov 23 2003, 05:33 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 67 Joined: 18-March 02 From: Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada Member No.: 2,412 |
IIRC the weapon does fire, but the characters aim (and the smartlinks ballistics trajectory calculations) are so off that the weapon will (typically) have no effect on the target, because it landed so far off where you intended to put it. You can get lucky with scatter, but thats rare.
Oh, and doesnt the amount of successes reduce the scatter? Thats how we've been running the gernade rules, and it seems to work fairly well. |
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Nov 24 2003, 10:59 PM
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Free Spirit Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,944 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Bloomington, IN UCAS Member No.: 1,920 |
Characters miss with smartlinked weapons all the time. No successes doesn't mean the weapon doesn't fire. The reason no shots are fired between targets when walking fire is because the character has sent the signal not to fire via the smartlink. |
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Nov 24 2003, 11:35 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,965 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Edinburgh, Scotland Member No.: 2,032 |
Emphasis mine.
As you don't otherwise wait an initiative pass for throwing weapons (knives, Shiruken, ETC) to hit, I'd say they could be set to go off immediately. |
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