RE: [SG] Needle Weapons

Initial look says lots of suppressions, not many casualties.

I was thinking for the Needle Weapons:
		   Range     FP   Impact	Suggested FP   
Suggested Impact
Needle Pistol:	    Close     2      d4 	1.5		d4
NAW:			      4      d6 		3.5	       
d6
Needle SAW:		     d12     d6 		d10	       
d8

Reasoning:	I lowered the FP to tone this down a touch.  As posted 2
men with 
NAW have the same FP as a squad of Riflemen.  I think the higher ROF of
the SAW 
would account for more chances to wound.

Michael Brown

-----Original Message-----
From:	bkb@beol.net
Sent:	Tuesday, April 17, 2001 4:19 AM
To:	GZG Mailing List
Subject:	[SG] Needle Weapons

K. I am going to ask for opinions.

I am looking to give statistics to 3 weapons.
The first is a Needler Pistol that fires short bursts (10-30) of needles
in
a fairly small pattern.
The second is a Needle Assault Weapon (similar to Advanced Assault Rifle
-
AAR).
The third would be the Needle equivalent of a Squad automatic weapon
(SAW).

My thought would be to up the Firepower (rate of fire) and decrease the
Impact.

Normal Weapons from p.34 of SG2:
		   Range     FP   Impact
Light Autopistol:   Close     1      d6
Heavy Autopistol:   Close     1      d10
AAR:			      2      d10
Conventional SAW:	     d8      d10
Gauss SAW:		     d10     d10

I was thinking for the Needle Weapons:
		   Range     FP   Impact
Needle Pistol:	    Close     2      d4
NAW:			      4      d6
Needle SAW:		     d12     d6

I was thinking that the needle weapons would be used primarily by
security
and police rather than military.

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net
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