RE: PA & Such

I did state it wrong. It should say 'Small arms (even those with
asterisks)
can have NO effect, except suppression, against armor class 2 or
greater'.

It appears that I did read this wrong. Weapons with asterisks do work
against all armor levels.

However, I would be opposed to "upgrading" other weapons to point-fire
status. Doing so usually would mean that the support weapon becomes more
effective than the equivalent Heavy weapon (with basic fire control) due
to
the Firepower rating and better rating against infantry. If you upgrade
a
SAW or Rotary SAW to point fire, it would be a RFAC/1. If you upgrade
the
Gauss SAW, it would be a GAC/1.

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net
http://www.ftsr.org
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barclay, Tom [SMTP:tomb@bitheads.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 3:07 PM
> To:	Gzg Digest (E-mail)
> Subject:	PA & Such
> 
> [Bri] With a little previso. No small arms weapon (even those with
> asterisk
> (*) next to them) can have NO effect, except supperssion, agianst
Class-2
> armor or better (SG p.37).
> 
> [Tomb] No small arms can have NO effect? Ergo all small arms have at
least
> some effect against class 2 armour? <I think this is wrongly stated>
> 
>  And there are not too many armor class-1 tanks
> (at least in DS2). So you may want to go back to having the PA have a
> heavy
> weapon or a larger mix of the AT variant of your PA.
> 
> [Tomb] I think you could define anything as a "heavy weapon" or "point
> fire"
> variant that could affect tanks. I think a good justification is the
ESU
> PA
> carrying a "point fire" railgun which I believe can probably punch
into a
> tank. And GMS/P have a d12* impact and I'm _quite_sure_ these are
meant to
> be able to attack things like a tank. 
> 
> [Tomb] The limitation you are referring to (I had thought) applied
only to
> normal small arms (such as the FSE rifle, etc). They are meant to have
> limited anti-armour capability versus soft targets or armour-1
targets,
> but
> none vs. heavier armour. Whereas anything with an asterisk (such as a
IPG
> or
> GMS) is actually meant to have a chance (though a slight one) versus
> larger
> vehicles. 
> 
> If not, my IPG AT section looks pretty stupid... (2 x Infantry Plasma
Gun
> with D12* impact). I think it can attack armour 2 and greater targets
> (though D12* isn't a big threat even on major impacts to anything
greater
> than armour 2). 
> 
> If I'm wrong, someone please straighten me out. 
> 
>  
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