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Maximillion Cyrus
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 Post Posted: Sat, August 15th 2009 06:10pm    Post subject: Crash course
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I know rather little about SW, I just really love... being here. I have discovered a number of issues like occasionally finding that I don't know things and Wookieepedia doesn't either, these include military weapon distibution (when are you going to encounter a rocket-storm-trooper?) not that it concerns me, military wage curves (who's rich and who's... not), and most importantly, what kind of ship is a Commodore most likely to command?

If we had such a guide not only would I be happy, but we might cut down on the number of ignorant godmodders >_>

In that spirit, I would like to explain that I may not mean the same thing as others when I say "slugthrower". Cheapy has what looks like Dirty Harry's .44 Magnum, wheras Cyrus is supposed to have something like a Sig-Sauer Full-Size P250 in .45ACP (first thing I found w/ 10-round clip)
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 Post Posted: Sat, August 15th 2009 06:13pm    Post subject:
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Actually, you're more likely to carry something based on the M9 Beretta or the FN Five-seveN. Once I decide which one we issue to the Navy. :p
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Maximillion Cyrus
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 Post Posted: Sat, August 15th 2009 06:18pm    Post subject:
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I figured you didn't issue it >_>

And I don't even know who makes those. :P

EDIT: Does the P22 3.4" sound okay?

EDIT2: The Five seveN has twice as many rounds, and the M9 pistol also has a lot. I want to have that small, round, number so I can keep track better and so I have the caliber to make people be dead the first time. :wink:
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 Post Posted: Sat, August 15th 2009 06:46pm    Post subject:
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Well, considering we use blaster weapons, and not slugs... ammunition capacity isn't a big issue. :p
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Maximillion Cyrus
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 Post Posted: Sun, August 16th 2009 02:19pm    Post subject:
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I don't. And blasters have downsides. Like if you try firing without drawing your weapon first, the shot will explode your pocket or whatever.

Or if your target is across a room full of glass panes, you can see them and shoot them with a gun but a blaster has to go through one shot at a time.
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 Post Posted: Sun, August 16th 2009 02:33pm    Post subject:
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I don't think a gun going off in your pocket would be any better... :P
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 Post Posted: Sun, August 16th 2009 02:35pm    Post subject:
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Well then if you put a paper bagover it, to disguise it. >_>
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 Post Posted: Sun, August 16th 2009 02:37pm    Post subject:
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Oh, like that. Yah, that blows.
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 Post Posted: Sun, August 16th 2009 02:41pm    Post subject:
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Or if your target is across a room full of glass panes, you can see them and shoot them with a gun but a blaster has to go through one shot at a time.

A blaster bolt has much more penetrating power than a bullet. :p

For instance, movie-era Stormtrooper armor is bullet-proof except for a single, gauss-based slugthrower. Blasters, of course, seem to work rather well. >_>
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 Post Posted: Tue, August 18th 2009 02:50pm    Post subject:
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Yeah, they're like miniature grenades. Hence, one at a time. ;)
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 Post Posted: Tue, August 18th 2009 02:59pm    Post subject:
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No... because there are lots of automatic blaster weapons. ;)

DC-15A


DC-15S


E-11


E-14 (Pretend the wire stock isn't there and magazine is way shorter :p)


E-19 (Again, shorter mag)


T-21 Light Repeating Blaster


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Maximillion Cyrus
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 Post Posted: Tue, August 18th 2009 04:28pm    Post subject:
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YES. Automatic weapons fire MORE THAN ONCE.

But good to know.
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 Post Posted: Tue, August 18th 2009 04:30pm    Post subject:
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Ams has all of them, and when he walks out to breakfast, he always makes sure his family sees them.... setting the DC-15A near the box of Trix, in a casual, tip-your-hat-towards-me type of manner. :P
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 Post Posted: Wed, August 19th 2009 12:29am    Post subject:
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Could one possibly operate a self-contained, mobile e-web?

Or is there SW version of the M60?
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 Post Posted: Wed, August 19th 2009 12:34am    Post subject:
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I think that would be the T-21 or DC-15A. A portable E-Web would be like a personal minigun. :P

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 Post Posted: Wed, August 19th 2009 01:38pm    Post subject:
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Could one possibly operate a self-contained, mobile e-web?

No. Just like there are no personal fifty-caliber machine guns around. :p
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 Post Posted: Wed, August 19th 2009 08:07pm    Post subject:
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Alright. I'll think about a T-21 with a bigger power pack. Though, this being the future and all, there might be new models.
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 Post Posted: Thu, August 20th 2009 10:23am    Post subject:
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Yer wrong thar, Amz. Two people got the Medal of Honor for taking a machine gun off its turret and shooting down waves of Japanese troops with it in WWII. I saw that on Lock n' Load, History Channel. Gunny even demonstrated. I don't remember the caliber though, and it's not something you would do every day.
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 Post Posted: Thu, August 20th 2009 10:43am    Post subject:
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Yer wrong thar, Amz. Two people got the Medal of Honor for taking a machine gun off its turret and shooting down waves of Japanese troops with it in WWII.


Japanese. We're not at war any more, and that's an ethnic slur :P
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sorry.
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 Post Posted: Thu, August 20th 2009 11:49am    Post subject:
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And that was a 1918 Browning .30, dudop. I like the Gunny, too. :p

And yeah, Alexus is right.
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 Post Posted: Thu, August 20th 2009 01:06pm    Post subject:
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Maximillion Cyrus wrote:
Yer wrong thar, Amz. Two people got the Medal of Honor for taking a machine gun off its turret and shooting down waves of Japanese troops with it in WWII. I saw that on Lock n' Load, History Channel. Gunny even demonstrated. I don't remember the caliber though, and it's not something you would do every day.


Also, keep in mind there is a difference between taking a gun off its turret and using it in a battle and using the gun as a personal weapon. Those men didn't lug it around with them all the time, which is the difference. Ams said there are no personal .50 cal machine guns because, well, there aren't. A weapon like that that you carry around with you is highly impractical. They are meant to be turret mounted, and actually they almost always only work that way. It's only on rare occasions that carrying one around actually is feasible.
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 Post Posted: Thu, August 20th 2009 08:00pm    Post subject:
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And, again, that was a 42-pound water-cooled .30-caliber machine gun, whereas the E-Web is an analog for the .50 caliber M2 (they even weigh the exact same amount). So, while Karen Traviss may well have invented some kind of DETHGUN for her beloved Mandolicious clones that fires bolts a hundred times more powerful than an E-Web at ten times the speed... it's not in this game. :p

As far as newer models than the T-21, well... I'm working on it. Designing two generations of new blasters isn't easy, y'know. ;)
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 Post Posted: Sat, August 22nd 2009 12:32am    Post subject:
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I'd like to see a few random new technologies and applications for our game. Might be fun.
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 Post Posted: Sat, August 22nd 2009 11:11pm    Post subject:
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Could one possibly operate a self-contained, mobile e-web?

No. Just like there are no personal fifty-caliber machine guns around. :p

I wish there were though :D

Also, for those of you interested in MMAW (mobile massive automatic weapons), I present to you, the Reciprocating Quad Blaster.
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