In the last installment, a few of the basic weapons from the Rifles section of GURPS Ultra-Tech were examined. The basic premise was to see if the designed stats make sense, and evaluate them against an assumed mission statement: deliver 3d-6d injury after penetrating whatever armor the target is wearing. The typical foe was assumed to be…
The rifle is the mainstay combat smallarm, given to every trooper. The current situation in the USA and the rest of the NATO countries have the primary projectile being the 5.56x45mm cartridge in various forms, and the “rest of the world” usually either uses the heavier and slower 7.62x39mm cartridge from the AK-47, or the…
Idle conversation on the Discord chat about a full-auto .50 BMG rifle (as opposed to a machinegun) led to the comment that for sufficiently strong and large races or creatures, they really should be kitted out with battle rifles in sufficiently impressive calibers. I mean, why wouldn’t a large-enough race make a rifle capable of…