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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dana_Jorgensen" data-source="post: 1312173" data-attributes="member: 12962">I hate lack of detail, too. If other books like the Compendium of Contemporary weapons from Palladium, or Ultramodern Firearms D20 has reasonable coverage for each weapon, I wouldn't have written this book. The only thing that comes close to the detail I want is RTG's Edge of the Sword: Compendium of Modern Firearms, and even then, I think it could have been better (especially if the author hadn't insisted on including all the Morrow Project-based charts he wasted so much paper on).Stinger versions covered are theFIM-92 Stinger Basic, FIM-92A Stinger RMP Block I and FIM-92A Stinger Block II. For the Strela 2s, I covered the original 9K32 Strela 2, the 9K32M Strela 2M as manufactured between 1968 and 1972, and the 9K32M Strela 2M as manufactured from 1972 on. I even documented the four most noticeable of 35 incidents since 1975 in which SA-7s have been used by terrorists to attack civilian aircraft (the attack on the Israeli airliner over Kenya in 2002 was definitely not the first time that happened, contrary to what the media would like folks to think).I wrote a specific set of rules for the use of guided weapons in regards to the D20 rules. Unlike trying to shoot down an aircraft with a machine gun, for instance, where skill has to be reflected with an attack roll, the use of weapons like stingers instead have a computer doing all the work. I ended up using the statistical information for those weapons. All MANPADS receive two effectiveness ratings; one for their capacity to actually reach the aircraft their fired on successfully, and the second is a rating of their effective chance to cripple an aircraft (not necessarily destroying an aircraft or knocking it out of the sky, but instead simply causing sufficient damage to force the aircraft to withdraw from the aerial battlefield). Given that those ratings are typically provided as percentage chances, they can be used directly a D100 check; roll under the rating and it does its job. Roll down in the single digits, and then the fun nasty stuff happens (plans break apart, fuel tanks explode, etc).For the ground attack guided weapons, like anti-tank guided missiles, the guidance systems still mostly rely on operator input during flight to keep the weapon directed at its target, so an attack roll is still required for those, based on the operator's skill.As for the level of detail, I provide a series of blocks of statistics. there's one block for each of the supported game systems, and then the important one is the real world stats; weapon's designation, manufacturer, nation manufacturing it, years it was manufactured, calibers available, magazine sizes available, accuracy ratings, muzzle velocity & energy, loaded & empty weights, weapon lengths, effective & maximum ranges, and rates of fire in various modes. They also all get at least one page of detailed historical and technical notes, coverage of variants, and illustrations or photographs. Some get a lot more. The M1 Garand, for instance, the writup currently covers 4 of 26 variants, and has 3 pages of text & pics. The OICW/XM29 SABR, last time it was updated, was 7 pages (and includes details on 25mm munitions for the gun other than the HE/Frag rounds which are usually the only thing mentioned in other books).</blockquote>

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