RE: [SGII][WW2] Here we go again.

Yes and no.  The Maxton mount has 4 .50 caliber MG's, two per side.  The
operator sits between the guns.  There is about 2 1/2 feet between the
guns - enough for a person to fit between.  If you slide the mount a
little left or right, then only 2 guns are on a human-sized target, the
other two are hitting just to the left or right of the target.	If the
guns are harmonized (i.e. cross their fire) at a certain range, then
anything short of that range will probably get hit by all 4, but
anything much past the harmonizing range will be missed by all 4.  

The question then is, are 4 bullets that are less aimed more effective
than 1 bullet more accurately aimed?  Comparative examples might be MG
fire vs. rifle fire or Semi-auto fire vs bolt action fire. In both of
those cases, the general thought is that the more rapid fire is less
accurate per shot, but you fire so many more shots that the effect is
the same or greater (mostly for morale effect, since having 100 bullets
flying around you is going to make you more nervous than having 10
flying about). 

In game terms, you might give multiple mounts a better FP die, but not
twice or quadruple what the regular weapon gets.  A one die shift for a
double mount and a two die shift for a quad mount might be appropriate.

A quick game comparison would be to take 2 MG's and see what kind of
damage they can do on two individual rolls then see what a twin mount
can do with one roll shifted to a higher die.  

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Claus Paludan [mailto:cpaludan@worldonline.dk]
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:50 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: RE: [SGII][WW2] Here we go again.
> 
> 
> fre, 2002-10-18 kl. 21:35 skrev laserlight@quixnet.net:
> > I'd be interested to hear whether these weapons had their 
> barrels parallel
> > (in which case I'd think you wouldn't have much greater 
> chance of hitting
> > but would do more damage) or divergent (vice versa)
> Yes, they would be parallel - and I would say that 4 bullets flying
> towards a target would have a greater chance of hitting a group of
> people than one single bullet would have :)
> 
> -- 
> Mvh
> Claus Paludan
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