Re: [GZG] [SG] Cracking Eggs with a Sledgehammer, was Power Armour with Shotguns

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the light auto-cannon is not affective in SG close combat
while the flechette shotgun gets you a die shift.

The take I'm getting is people don't really think PA with a shotgun
(Close
assault PA bonus with Shotgun shifts) is cheese. I need som shotgun arms
for
my NAC PA.

My view of PA is up close and personal anyway. If my PA is not close
assaulting they should be in the rack.

Welcome back John, It will be good to have your "restrained" voice back
on
the list. :)

Roger Books

On 10/6/05, John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>  So tell me, what's the practical difference between a 4 gauge
automatic
> shotgun (computer-selectable to feed from either the flechette or the
sabot
> drums) and a light autocannon? If a suit of PA can carry the latter
(see the
> ESU writeup in SGII) then it should have few problems with the former.
> Especially if you put a muzzle brake on it, and equip the 'arm' of the
PA
> with hydraulic recoil compensation.
> Here's the problem with boarding actions vs. PA-suited opponents or
with
> PA-scale weaponry: Starships are, in general, full of things that do
not
> 'react well to bullets'. Not least of which is the hull. In the case
of
> merchantmen (IE those ships you'd most want to board and loot rather
than
> just blow into scrap metal) those hulls are probably not real heavily
> armored. And using AP rounds, high-power heat rounds, etc is probably
going
> to poke holes in things that the design engineer did not intend to
function
> with holes in it.
>  Like the skin of the ship.
>  For boarding actions against merchies, I like the Traveller:TNE Guild
> Deck Sweeper, a low-tech submachine gun with extendable stock firing
9x24mm
> ammo and an underbarrel 25mm low-velocity grenade launcher. In the
hands of
> reasonable competent troops working against civillians, it does the
job
> without opening huge gaping holes in the cargo bay resulting in all
your
> loot being sucked into hard vacuum which may impair the resale value.
> Unlike, say, a man-portable plasma gun designed to kill light armored
> vehicles. The GL is intended for locked hatches and security doors
only, and
> is a single-shot breechloader usually loaded with HEAT rounds, issued
1 or 2
> per weapon.
>  Boarding actions against military starships would be rarer than hen's
> teeth and undertaken only by special operations forces. I'm inclined
to
> equip them with cutting torches in one hand, and a 12 ga shotgun
loaded with
> #1 buck in the other. Against unarmored opponents the latter will do
nicely
> without overpenetration issues, and against armored opponents the
former
> makes an interesting hand-to-hand weapon.
> I'm back from the field.
>
> John
> --
> "Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
and
> again. We're looking for thousands of Persians."
> --Vita Aureliani
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