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Originally Posted by Joseph Paul
Atgxtg- When I did that recently I found that CoC pistol damage was way overrated and that there were other anomalous figures. I would be interested in seeing your results as a check on my own.
"+8 SIZ per doubling in BRP" What does this refer to?
Joseph Paul
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How so? As it is it is impossible for a low caliber handgun to kill a moderate sized person, and even a moderate handgun cannot kill a decent sized person easily. Only the .45 and up have a real shot at it, and often require an impale.
The BTRC stuff seems to based on energy alone, which is a very flawed way of translating real world guns to Damage in a game, especially HP based games.
The damage roll is a result of two things, an abstraction of the weapons capabilities to damage a person or thing, and the location of the hit - which is not affected by energy at all. A shot to the heart or brain with a .22 probably as bad as one with a .45.
Second, higher velocity rounds often easily penetrate targets and so only transfer a part of their energy to the target, while a slower round may not penetrate, and so ALL of it's energy is absorbed by the target. I see BTRC rates a 9mm higher than a .45 (because of it's higher velocity) - but the 9mm is more likely to go through the target, while the slower, bigger .45 is more likely to transfer more or even all of it's energy to the target.
That is the principle behind Armor Piercing rounds and soft lead or hollow point rounds. Armor Piercing rounds are made of very hard material and teflon* coated and designed for maximum penetration of body armor - but they tend to make neat little holes in soft targets, while a lead or hollow point is designed to NOT go through a soft target, but to expand, fragment, and generally cause as much tissue damage as possible while transferring all of their energy to the target - but they tend to just splat against armored targets. The important thing that two rounds are going to travel at the same velocity and have pretty much the same mass - so the energy will be practically identical, while the damage will be very different.
*The teflon is actually not to aid penetration - a bonus cookie to anyone who knows why AP rounds are teflon coated.