Re: [GZG] QUESTION: are SAWs becoming less significant...?

>On Jan 31, 2009, at 6:58 AM, Ground Zero Games wrote:
>>
>>  Do SAWs become less significant in terms of the overall firepower of
>>  a squad or fireteam, as the tech level of the individual soldiers'
>>  weapons increases?
>
>I'd say no.  Perhaps the name changes from SAW (Sq. Auto. Weapon) to 
>SSW (Sq. SUPPORT Wpn) but I'd think the infantry squad will always 
>have something special to anchor their tactics around.
>
>This may not be the case for non-infantry or specialized troops who 
>only have their standard issue rifle.	Having said that back in my 
>Arty days we actually had quite a few M-60s and M-203s.  203s I could 
>understand but 60's?  I mean really now -- we had at least thirteen .
>50's spread throughout the battery...	Oh well.
>
>D.

Thanks Damo (and Beth) for your input, anyone else want to chime in?

To put it more in game terms, what I'm trying to decide is whether to 
always have a SAW/SSW adding the same percentage to a squad's overall 
firepower, or adding a fixed number so that the % drops as the tech 
level increases. To explain this a bit more by putting some 
(arbitrary at this stage) numbers to it:

Let's just assume for this example that a fireteam's base firepower 
(by weapons tech only, before modifying for troop quality) is 1 for 
PRIMITIVE weapons, 2 for BASIC and so on up to 5 for ADVANCED.	This 
is for a team armed with individual weapons ("rifles") only.

Primitive (bolt-action rifles)				Base FP = 1
Basic (semi-auto rifles and early automatic rifles)		Base FP
= 2
Enhanced (improved automatic rifles)			Base FP = 3
Superior (gauss and energy weapons)			Base FP = 4
Advanced (very-high-tech energy weapons)		Base FP = 5

Now, we add a SAW/SSW to the team. If we say that the SAW increases 
its effectiveness in proportion to the tech level (fixed %), and for 
the sake of argument we assume that the SAW's output doubles the raw 
firepower of the team,	then:

Primitive WITH SAW/SSW				Base FP = 2
Basic WITH SAW/SSW				Base FP = 4
Enhanced WITH SAW/SSW				Base FP = 6
Superior WITH SAW/SSW				Base FP = 8
Advanced WITH SAW/SSW				Base FP = 10

OR, if we assume that the SAW/SSW becomes less of a % factor as the 
tech level increases, and decide to represent it by a fixed number 
(let's say +2) on the team's FP:

Primitive WITH SAW/SSW				Base FP = 3
Basic WITH SAW/SSW				Base FP = 4
Enhanced WITH SAW/SSW				Base FP = 5
Superior WITH SAW/SSW				Base FP = 6
Advanced WITH SAW/SSW				Base FP = 7

I'm trying to decide which option to go for on this, for working out 
fireteam base firepower output for SG:AC......

Feel free to discuss further!  ;-)

Jon (GZG)

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