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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5923830" data-attributes="member: 19675">IOW, you're saying a Vulcan cannon or Metalstorm can't harm the LeShay based on the stats of a completely different weapon.  That makes no sense.There is- quite literally- a huge difference in the size & mass of the projectile launched by a minigun and a Vulcan.  That is why it is used to destroy tanks.<a href="http://www.rense.com/general93/mime-attachment%2096.jpeg" target="_blank">http://www.rense.com/general93/mime-attachment 96.jpeg</a>In the 6 second round the Metalstorm was trained on a LeShay, that would mean 100,000 rounds of ammunition potentially hitting it- approximately 1000x the number of rounds delivered by the minigun.  There simply is no weapon statted out in D20 that approximates this.[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKlnMwuCZso&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/ame]And the fact that something from the RW isn't statted out shouldn't remove it from consideration in what is, essentially, a thought experiment.I didn't say it would.I pointed out that this is enough to take out armored vehicles and all within, then extrapolated from that that it would probably do more than enough damage to kill a LeShay.  That a Hellfire missile has been statted out by someone as 15d6 just goes hand in hand with my contention that modern weapons in D20 have their damage seriously nerfed...probably to 1) keep the rules consolidated and 2) to facilitate viability of mixed-genre games.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_explosive_device" target="_blank">IEDs</a> can be very powerful.You may note that some IEDs are made from scavenged military munitions, and that devices like the the OKC truck bomb that took out the Murrah building are considered IEDs.And, FWIW, that particular IED has proven it can toss & shred a multi-ton armored vehicle quite a distance- equivalent to or superior to certain kinds of military munitions.</blockquote>

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