RE: [SG] more ww2

The short answer is yes you can keep the ratios the same.  The game
mechanics should assume that grenades provide intense, short range
firepower compared to rifles.

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Flak Magnet [mailto:flakmagnet@tabletop-battlezone.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 8:42 AM
> To: GZG Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [SG] more ww2
> 
> 
> Just to drag this down into a semantical nightmare, hopefully skirting
> the issue or ballistics and whatnot:
> 
> How do you define "powerful" in order to compare the relative power or
> rifles vs. grenades?
> 
> Certainly an assault rifle puts more firepower into the hands of a
> soldier than a heavier calibre bolt-action...  Unless you're only
> looking at the power of a single round fired from each weapon.
> 
> Grenades of WWII had less explosive force, and produced fewer 
> fragments
> than today's grenades, but the fragments were larger and, 
> according to a
> dubious source, able to inflict wounds and larger distances than
> fragments from today's grenades (should you happen to be hit by one).
> 
> Short version:  I don't have an answer, but I can complicate the issue
> just fine!  *grin*
> 
> On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 00:18, John Leary wrote:
> > 
> > --- Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:
> > > G'day,
> > > 
> > > Just to ask the obvious.... the effects of grenades
> > > of ww2 were as strong compared to bolt action rifles
> > of the time as modern grenades are compared to assault
> > rifles (in other words I don't have to correct for
> > alternative
> > > strengths) right?
> > 
> > 
> > Wrong!   The bolt action rifle was MORE powerful than
> > the assault rifle.	 The assault rifle was created
> > using
> > a round with less powder, even if it was the same
> > caliber as the standard bolt action rifle.	 Modern
> > grenades tend to have more explosive power in a
> > smaller container.
> > 
> > Modern battle rifles have the features of the assault
> > rifle, I.E. auto fire, select fire as in SLR, L1A1,
> > G3,
> > M14.   The AK-47 is a true assault rifle using a
> > reduced power cartridge.
> > 
> > Bye for now,
> > John L.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > __________________________________________________
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> > Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes
> > http://autos.yahoo.com
> > 
> -- 
> 
> --Flak Magnet
> Hive Fleet Jaegernaught
> http://www.geocities.com/flakmagnet72
> 
> "...why I'm so sympathetic to the monsters. The answer is simple.
> Because I am one." - Laurell K. Hamilton
>