Re: [FT] Railguns

On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:02:24 -0500 (EST), Rick Rutherford writes:
>On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Sean Bayan Schoonmaker wrote:
>> Railguns
>> 
>> Class 1 RAILGUN - 1 MASS, 6-arc fire
>> 
>> Class 2 RAILGUN - 3 MASS, 3-arc fire
>> 
>> Class 3 RAILGUN - 7 MASS, 1-arc fire
>
>Personally, I don't like it -- Railguns are still moew deadly than beam
>weapons when they hit, so the old "1 arc per railgun" limit should
still
>apply.
>

I think I'm in the middle on this.  I'd like to see R1 with 3 arcs, R2
with 2 arcs, and R3 with 1 arc.

An R1 doesn't hit that hard.  1.5 average damage after a hit.  At best
thats 1.25 per shot at point blank range.  Beam dice do 0.53 points on
average per die.  So an R1 at < 3(/4/6)" does the same damage as about
2.5 beam dice.	Its not THAT nasty.

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