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<blockquote data-quote="Thain" data-source="post: 689615" data-attributes="member: 7215"><p><strong>Semi-Rantish</strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>I disagree wholeheartedly, police snipers and SWAT teams are drilled in the "double tap" method. The first bullet is aimed at center of mass -normally the torso- because this is the easiest area to target, and will "stagger" the target. Unfortunatly, a single round to the torso is not always a kill, thus a second round is placed into the vict, er, target's head after the first.</p><p></p><p>As for automatic fire, are you refering to fully automatic fire, or burst fire? The D20M rules render full-auto as very inacurate; you target a 10' x 10' area, and can only hit everything in it once. If your refering to burstfire, I'm afraid there are a number of very acurate burstfire weapons on the market. Most are /not/ designed or intended as sniper rifles, but I'm certain if a Marine Corps Scout Sniper was forced to use a P90 or M16A2 that he'd make a pretty damn good shot (Read: good BAB, high DEX, Far Shot, Burst Fire and (possibly) Weapon Focus).</p><p></p><p>To address range incriments, I'll just say that D20M is intended to model the cinema and popular media of Bond, Fury, and Rambo, not the real world of 2nd Lt. Monroe, USAF... The ranges are cut short on purpose, to lend themselves to close range firefights and action sequences. <em>SpyCraft</em>, <em>Shadowrun</em>, <em>GURPS</em> and everyone else does the same thing.</p><p></p><p>If you want over-the-horizon missiles, and long-range firefights, 'Rule 0' it. But do remeber, the acurate range of an M16 on the firing range and out in the hot and cold, and muddy, and goddamn WET jungles of `nam are not the same... no matter what your local arms dealer tells you.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes :rolleyes:" data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> I am such a know-it-all...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thain, post: 689615, member: 7215"] [b]Semi-Rantish[/b] I disagree wholeheartedly, police snipers and SWAT teams are drilled in the "double tap" method. The first bullet is aimed at center of mass -normally the torso- because this is the easiest area to target, and will "stagger" the target. Unfortunatly, a single round to the torso is not always a kill, thus a second round is placed into the vict, er, target's head after the first. As for automatic fire, are you refering to fully automatic fire, or burst fire? The D20M rules render full-auto as very inacurate; you target a 10' x 10' area, and can only hit everything in it once. If your refering to burstfire, I'm afraid there are a number of very acurate burstfire weapons on the market. Most are /not/ designed or intended as sniper rifles, but I'm certain if a Marine Corps Scout Sniper was forced to use a P90 or M16A2 that he'd make a pretty damn good shot (Read: good BAB, high DEX, Far Shot, Burst Fire and (possibly) Weapon Focus). To address range incriments, I'll just say that D20M is intended to model the cinema and popular media of Bond, Fury, and Rambo, not the real world of 2nd Lt. Monroe, USAF... The ranges are cut short on purpose, to lend themselves to close range firefights and action sequences. [i]SpyCraft[/i], [i]Shadowrun[/i], [i]GURPS[/i] and everyone else does the same thing. If you want over-the-horizon missiles, and long-range firefights, 'Rule 0' it. But do remeber, the acurate range of an M16 on the firing range and out in the hot and cold, and muddy, and goddamn WET jungles of `nam are not the same... no matter what your local arms dealer tells you. :rolleyes: I am such a know-it-all... [/QUOTE]
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