Full Version: New SR4 Errata
| QUOTE (SCARed @ Dec 11 2006, 09:22 AM) |
| so the name itself is somewhat misleading, but in SR (at least from SR2 on, that's were i got in), flechettes were always like little arrows/splinters/shrapnel. so what? |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flechette#Sma...arms_ammunition
Basically the US Army tried developing multiple projectile small arms flechette ammo in response to personal armour. The issues they ran into were the high cost of production and relatively poor damage. So SR got one out of three right.
Flechette has much better armour penetration than shot from a shotgun. That was the whole point of it, which is why grouping their damage coding together is at the root of this wierdness.
The problem is that the military's "flechette" is SR's "APDS" (ie. a sharp spike/nail that tears through armor but doesn't appreciably increase damage), and SR's "flechette" is the military's "buckshot/birdshot" (a cluster of pain that bounces off armor). Only somehow SR's flechette doesn't spread in flight like buckshot or birdshot does.
| QUOTE (Eben McKay) |
| Only somehow SR's flechette doesn't spread in flight like buckshot or birdshot does. |
..that's what the capsule is for.
| QUOTE (Rotbart van Dainig) |
| ..that's what the capsule is for. |
If you encapsulate it you have a slug. And no ability to engage multiple targets.
People tend to overestimate how much buckshot spreads. The cheap one I have at home can keep all the buckshot inside the space of someone's chest at 25 meters.
| QUOTE (kzt) |
| People tend to overestimate how much buckshot spreads. The cheap one I have at home can keep all the buckshot inside the space of someone's chest at 25 meters. |
25 meters is around 83 feet.
unless you are going to give brand name weapon gauge and manufacturer I'm going to have to disagree.
| QUOTE (kzt) |
| If you encapsulate it you have a slug. And no ability to engage multiple targets. |
..sounds like SR flechette for non-shotgun-weapons, does it?
| QUOTE (Fortune) |
| Bummer. Gotta dig up the older fluff versions in Street Samurai Catalog to see if it differs. I seem to recall a description of a plastic disk from which single slivers were sliced each time the weapon was fired. |
Well, this description almost fits the "Malorian Arms Sliver Gun" (which uses a flywheel to rip razor-sharp slivers off a polyceramic block) - but that one isn't an SR gun but from Cyberpunk 2020 (can be found in Chromebook 1 and Blackhand's Street Weapons 2020).
D'oh! That's where I saw it! At least I'm not totally senile yet. Thanks. 
| QUOTE (djinni) |
| 25 meters is around 83 feet. unless you are going to give brand name weapon gauge and manufacturer I'm going to have to disagree. |
Mossberg 500 with Federal Tactical Buckshot. It opens up quite a bit from 20 to 25, but at 30 I still have an effective enough pattern that you probably hit someone you were aiming at with one or two.
| QUOTE (M¥$T1C) |
| Well, this description almost fits the "Malorian Arms Sliver Gun" (which uses a flywheel to rip razor-sharp slivers off a polyceramic block) |
Also similar in description to the Eldar "shuriken" weapons from Warhammer 40,000, which use a very narrow gravitic pulse to plane a monomolecular slice off of a strong crystal such as diamond and fling it at the target at very high speeds.
And also quite similar to the Needler weapons from the Mechwarrior/Classic BattleTech Roleplaying Game(s)...
Or the Shredder from the (German) Space Gothic RPG...
Greetings,
Nyx
Or the Shredder from the (German) Space Gothic RPG...
Greetings,
Nyx
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