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Pulse rifle sounds like a shotgun to me, but I could see how you could interpret it as an explosion-type weapon.
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| Google search Nock volley gun. |
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Fallon Kell
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Thanks! That's about the idea, save that it's a breech-loader, and I've resisted the urge to make it a .50, barely... 
With the accuracy of modern rifles and the narrow spread of my gun, I doubt it would be effective against multiple targets, but I suppose I should do the math on that at some point...
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 7:21 am Post subject: |
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now im curious as to what kind of damage you guys would think this "scatter gun" would do.
basically what kind of damage would 6x .223 remington rounds fire linked together do?
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Fallon Kell
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I'm thinking a little more than the standard fire-linking bonus, seeing as shot placement is so crucial to damage done in real life, and this gun has a large pattern. Also because at shorter ranges the terminal ballistic patterns would overlap to create a large cylinder of destroyed tissue which would cause massive internal bleeding. Not so good against armor, though.
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thedemonapostle
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the .223 rem/5.56x45mm nato round always sucked against armor and it was never that great against the fleshy bits. however, it is great against small game animals. but since we are talking about a sci fi rifle that will shoot 6 at once, it might be more damaging...
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For the historical origins of what you propose, look here.
Of course, if you want to get really nasty, you could have all of the fired projectiles be guided or homing in some fashion, so that, rather than simply shooting off on a ballistic course, they all home in on a designated target (the same target or multiples).
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Fallon Kell
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| thedemonapostle wrote: | | the .223 rem/5.56x45mm nato round always sucked against armor and it was never that great against the fleshy bits. however, it is great against small game animals. but since we are talking about a sci fi rifle that will shoot 6 at once, it might be more damaging... |
Yeah, at longer ranges, when it doesn't have the impact energy to fragment a bullet, it doesn't do all that much unless you hit a vital organ. If you do hit a vital organ, though, it tends to work pretty well. With this gun you have 6 or 7 chances to hit something important, so I could see it potentially doing one extra D over and above the fire-linked damage rating of so many rounds.
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| Fallon Kell wrote: | | thedemonapostle wrote: | | the .223 rem/5.56x45mm nato round always sucked against armor and it was never that great against the fleshy bits. however, it is great against small game animals. but since we are talking about a sci fi rifle that will shoot 6 at once, it might be more damaging... |
Yeah, at longer ranges, when it doesn't have the impact energy to fragment a bullet, it doesn't do all that much unless you hit a vital organ. If you do hit a vital organ, though, it tends to work pretty well. With this gun you have 6 or 7 chances to hit something important, so I could see it potentially doing one extra D over and above the fire-linked damage rating of so many rounds. |
And this is Star Wars, after all, so why does the bullet have to be limited to a simple metal slug. Give it an explosive tip or something exotic that does major damage.
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WH40K is a good place to start, especially the Dark Heresy books, as they cover a lot of different specialized ammunitions, with incendiary rounds, homing rounds, bolts (mass-reactive explosive tips that detonate inside the target), psi-rounds (when embedded in a psychically gifted target, they disrupt the target's ability to use psychic powers), chem-delivery darts, homing device tags, etc.
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 2:58 am Post subject: |
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I have always been partial to concussion mini-missiles, available at great expense. If that doesn't float your boat, there is potential for nerve agents, tiny tazers, radioactive rounds, angry little robots, and of course bio weapons.
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What I really dont understand is why anyone would want such a thing..
Wouldnt it be better with a fast automatic weapon? I feels like you have to lug around with a clunky weapon to use in very narrowly defined situations.. Also, given the fact that you dont have control over where the bullets hit in a spray pattern, no one might get hit even if you aim dead on at some range.
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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| If that was the case, then Shotguns would have gone out of style a long time ago. |
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Don't forget the coolness factor. Star Wars is filled with ideas that are not particularly practical, but they look good while they do whatever they do.
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