Re: Unofficial TNE errata: small arms

Part of thread: Unofficial TNE errata: small arms · 1 reply ↳ In reply to Re: Unofficial TNE errata: small arms — Roger Malmstein Re: Unofficial TNE errata: small arms — Jake Collins


>
> >IMHO the two biggies to fix are bipod weight and receiver
> weight. I'd
> >like to hear some suggestions.
>
> I am no gun nut, so I can't comment on the receiver mass, but
> I agree that bipods need to be modified. Their mass should be
> a fraction of the weapon mass, not a result from Muzzle Energy.
>
> Roger Malmstein

There must be examples of bipod weights with the weights of the weapons they
are designed to carry out there. Obviously we would never get an exact match
but a large enough sample would enable some guidelines to be put together.

It does make me wonder how some of the construction rules were put together.

Antony