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thetrav
post Oct 26 2010, 04:50 AM
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Thrown grenades almost always end up on the ground before they explode.

The Blast in a confined space rules mention blast waves bouncing off up to 6 surfaces to increase damage.

So my question, is whether grenades should almost always be getting roughly double their damage.

It seems a bit nuts
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- thetrav   Grenades and the ground, chunky salsa?   Oct 26 2010, 04:50 AM
- - Yerameyahu   Grenades are dangerous.   Oct 26 2010, 05:03 AM
- - Mayhem_2006   "On the ground" is not equal to "in...   Oct 26 2010, 06:41 AM
- - Yerameyahu   It kinda is, especially with the screwy 'refle...   Oct 26 2010, 06:44 AM
- - KarmaInferno   Well, technically, even in real life military expl...   Oct 26 2010, 07:43 AM
- - Manunancy   My take would be that the reflected blast from the...   Oct 26 2010, 10:43 AM
- - Yerameyahu   Either way, by the SR4A rules, it only matters if ...   Oct 26 2010, 02:26 PM
- - AppliedCheese   A quick check on the reality given the nature of w...   Oct 26 2010, 11:41 PM
|- - KarmaInferno   QUOTE (AppliedCheese @ Oct 26 2010, 07:41...   Oct 27 2010, 04:06 AM
|- - Smokeskin   QUOTE (AppliedCheese @ Oct 27 2010, 01:41...   Oct 28 2010, 06:42 AM
- - DMiller   I created a "Chunky Salsa" calculator (u...   Oct 26 2010, 11:57 PM
- - Neurosis   For the sake of common sense, I personally would n...   Oct 27 2010, 12:38 AM
- - Yerameyahu   The rules don't even support it. If you really...   Oct 27 2010, 04:27 AM
- - Shinobi Killfist   Chunky salsa is one of those rules I hope they eit...   Oct 27 2010, 05:05 AM
- - KarmaInferno   I wouldn't mind if it was just simplified to s...   Oct 27 2010, 05:10 AM
|- - Shinobi Killfist   QUOTE (KarmaInferno @ Oct 27 2010, 12:10 ...   Oct 27 2010, 05:22 AM
- - Yerameyahu   It has a sort of flashy appeal as a concept, but n...   Oct 27 2010, 05:15 AM
- - Surukai   My guess is that the floor must be calculated in t...   Oct 27 2010, 05:10 PM
|- - Smokeskin   QUOTE (Surukai @ Oct 27 2010, 07:10 PM) M...   Oct 28 2010, 06:44 AM
- - Yerameyahu   Presumably, it's not TNT in the grenades, and ...   Oct 27 2010, 05:35 PM
- - Game2BHappy   This is only an approximation, since it says ...   Oct 28 2010, 06:02 AM
- - KarmaInferno   Yeah, I recall a report of an incident in Iraq whe...   Oct 28 2010, 07:56 AM
- - Smokeskin   I just remembered we also dug a small 1 foot deep ...   Oct 28 2010, 08:33 AM
- - Brainpiercing7.62mm   So what about airbursting directly over someone? I...   Oct 28 2010, 11:13 AM


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