I just recall finding this when I was goofing about with Anitti from the Viborg sites FF&S spreadsheet. I recall checking out the calculations and seeing nothing that looked hinky. I'd check now but the gov't of BC frowns upon me downloading stuff at work.
Derek Stanley
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On 2012-06-17, at 12:15, wrote:
> That's beyond my recollection, but sounds like the kind of thing we would
> have heard about, and I don't remember hearing about anything like that.
> Not saying it's not true.
>
> If it is true, it's one more example of how hard it is to do our typical
> Traveller thing and try to simulate everything. And I say this based on
> the fact that of all of the stuff in FF&S, firearms was the section that
> was the most painstakingly tested and retested and retested by all and
> sundry.
>
> Dave
>
> > This is something I'm kind of dimly recalling from the FF&S rules and
> > someone will have to confirm it but I think there was a bug with the
> > rifle/cartridge rules where by a large slug with low velocities would have
> > a longer range than a small slug with higher velocities.
> >
> > I think, say a 15mm round with a 20mm necked cartridge was a way better
> > round than a 5mm round with a 30mm necked cartridge.
> >
> > Derek Stanley
> > Sent from my iPhone...
> >
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