Re: Re: [SGII] Nasty Cover
From: KH.Ranitzsch@t...
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:14:16 +0100
Subject: Re: Re: [SGII] Nasty Cover
> This can get REAL complicated; prone is usually considered good as
reduced
> cross-section for being targeted. On the other hand, I remember an old
> episode of SWAT where they explained it was bad on concrete, because
their
> studies indicated that bounced bullets tended to hug the ground.
You can discover all kinds of such oddities.
A German tactical manual from 1903 mentions that bullets ricochet
differently off ploughed fields depending on whether the shooting is
parallel or perpendicular to the furrows. An effect no self-respecting
period wargame should be without ;-)
Greetings
Karl Heinz