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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pagan priest" data-source="post: 731412" data-attributes="member: 7650">Oh, the joys of writing in haste!The balance I was refering to was with regard to other weapons.  Is this more powerful than a M-60 or even a Ma Deuce?  Yes, and well it should be.  The M-60 machine gun is based on the design of the early WWII German squad support MG.  The M-2 machine gun was also used in WWII.  The M-134 has several decades of technology advances to draw upon.  Even with the increased beaten zone spreading the bullets over a larger area, it is extremely likely that a man-sized target will be hit by several bullets, thus justifying a substancially higher amount of damage per hit.  (Which reflects the abstract nature of hit points, and damage caused from a "hit".)Would you have a Great Wyrm Red Dragon attack a 5th level party in a D&D game?With the right type of FX, a d20M party could face a weapon such as this, and defeat it.  Actually, even without any FX, an infiltrator should be able to sneak up on the M-134 gunner and slit his throat before a single shot could be fired.  From the other side, should a party ever get there hands on such a weapon?  Depends, is the party in a Mecha Crusade campaign?  It could be the standard issue side arm.  (An M-134 pistol... now THERE'S a scary thought!)  ShadowChasers or Agents of Psi should likely never even be able to get their hands on such weaponryWhen I DM, I prefer to not kill characters.  I would not use such a weapon unless the senario warrented it.  On the other hand, if the party knew that they might face vastly superior fire power and chose not to take appropriate preperations...TPK.</blockquote>

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