Of course, the non-bastardized original english is a bastardized and heavily mutilated version of the scandinavian and germanic languages, with most of its scientific terms imported from latin and many economic and political terms derived from french.

Actually, whilst we're on the subject of spelling, grammar and differences between languages I've got a question/comment.

I was reading the Underworld sourceboook and noticed the use of the word leftenant - has anyone /ever/ seen this word used? I've always used leiutenant... and remember being confused about how "leiu" could ever be pronounced as "left"

Of course I'm old enough (and sad enough) to remember a Dempsey and Makepeace episode in which Dempsey made that exact point.

I beleive it's just an older rank that was sort of "phased out" by the lieu variant instead.

I'm a great subscriber to the old axiom of "Pistols are for fighting your way back to your gun" and, as such, feel that a light pistol is more than adequate to that task.

Now, if you're a criminal (read: Shadowrunner) who doesn't have a "gun" in that sense, then the way forward is definately a heavy pistol.

But remember, of course, that if you're stealthy and clever enough, you should be able to do the ol' "Splinter Cell" trick and grab your opponents in a great ninja-HO! fashion, placing your silenced hold-out right by the temple and thereby ensuring a kill.

Failing that, you could always get them to tell you stuff, use retinal scanners, or shake so much they drop their dog-tags...


No, wait... I'm mixing my game-a-phores...

The spelling is lieutenant in either case. In England and its colonies like Australia, New Zealand and Canada, it is pronounced leftenant, wheras in America it is said as lootenant.

What Fortune said, although especially in the armed forces I suppose just "l'tenant" is as or more common than "loutenant".

In what way?

Chill, we all speak it and write it..... or in my case try, and there are many variants of it.

torz

It's cool. I wasn't really getting worked up as much as just tired of reading his half-witted, ill-informed crap.

too true

yawn off to be now..... been a long week!

torz

P.S Sorry about the Mail i just sent you!! i meant to send it to someone else and hit the wrong name! erm...... I need sleep

No problem. I was bored, so I responded to it anyway.

So back to my original post, i Just had another thought that will proberly get me into trouble........ Advantages and disadvantages to burst fire and fully auto, which is better. I just hate the fact that even with a smartlink 2 I have to take more and more minuses (for recoil) when firing on Fully auto, Anything i can do about it?

Before you all shout I am not just going on about pistols.


torz

Pretty much the only thing you can do to lower the TN due to recoil when using Full Auto is to get better Recoil Compensation.

Or use suppressive fire instead.

Suppressive fire is more fun when you dual wield.

Unless your a troll metatype.

You can get an SMG with FA or even a heavy pistol with FA, although the latter requires a BF-capable heavy pistol that is modified to fire SA/FA (pg. 82, CC). The problem with that is you lose BF and a point of RC.

Or you can just use a couple of machine pistols. The Steyr TMP comes standard with all three fire modes.

for some real fun, make a heavy pistol with burst-fire, and then modify it to fire full-auto.

and, no, the +2 for dual-wielding doesn't apply to suppression.

Suppressive fire is actually just usefull with more than one player doing it. Get three or four guys with AR's (or heavier, depending on the game) all suppressing the same area, and you'll see it work like it's supposed to. One guy doing it, no one's especially scared of -- it's a single shot's worth of basic 7M or so damage that anyone worth suppressing can soak.

When someone's facing that three or four times, though, with one extra PC (or NPC, or whatever) left over to pick off survivors with aimed bursts? That's when it gets nasty.

Suppressive fire on an invisible fellow. It works even if it is just 1 guy doing it.

And when its a cyberzombie with a bunch of dedicated gun arms doing the supressing... Or a sam/rigger with a bunch of drones in captain's chair mode, you don't even need to bring any firends along.

yeah, sounds cool! might be an option for my next charter!

torz x