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Just in case you wanted to see, graphically, how complicated separate charge rounds can get in GURPS with Gun Stats...
This is just changing the charge and firing the same M107 HE round from an M198 howitzer.
To go with full detail, you'd need this many entries for EVERY 155mm round. Fun, huh?
Would Mr Fleetwood, who was actually there, like to comment on this video?
The Boy failed to advance to the state level at Special Olympics bowling.
We kind of expected this.
His scores were the highest he'd ever gotten in practice, and that moved him up a bracket where his scores were just above the entry level.
There's always next year!
The Hiroshima post has been time corrected for the moment of detonation, which is actually on the 5th of August at 1915 hours EDT.
This happens when recording things that happen on the other side of the planet sometimes.
The more DSA candidates win in the primaries, the more I think we shouldn't have let Germany reunite.
We should have kept East Germany as it was as a living history museum so that when anyone started to forget that every political party with socialism or socialist in the name was evil, we could point them at the Democratic Republic of Germany so they could marvel at it's success.
Of course, like all political groups with socialism in their name, the real goals are not the stated ones.
Sharia is the more apt 'S' in the DSA name.
You only get to use the D a limited number of times before they lock the gate behind themselves once they obtain enough power.
It creates the classic situation you can vote your way into and have to shoot your way out. And they do love themselves some gun control, don't they?
I also notice that DSA shares a trait with another socialist in the name group. They hate the Jews. They have a lot of overlap on the political Venn diagram with "conservative" bigots there.
Dunno if we're going to dodge this civil war. Our luck has to run out eventually.
As an armchair historian and a degreed psychologist... (What an odd thing to say).
I keep watching people trying to change the word being used for something to keep someone from being offended.
I've lived through three words to describe black people politely when the previous word had become a slur.
I used to have two editions of a textbook changing the names of specific diagnoses because the name of a diagnosis was now an insult.
I've watched an NCO reply to a Black officer with, "Sir," with little doubt that he meant, "CENSORED."
I wonder how long it will be before saying "n-word" carries the same weight as CENSORED. Especially since you can tell what word was censored there, but it's OK as long as I only allude to it without actually saying it.
But you cannot avoid people insulting other people or disparaging them.
People throw slurs.
In the long run, it's generally better to let them so you can readily identify them and avoid doing business with their like.
You cannot change the words fast enough to keep someone from being offended. It's best to let them get accustomed hearing the slur until it loses its power to offend.
Being offended for someone is the absolute least helpful thing you can do about someone being offensive. Let the target of the offense get offended, or not, as they wish. Too often I find that the target dismisses the offense because they're familiar with the source only to have a third party cause a shit storm because they're all offended for the target who doesn't really care any more.
4eR has a page on their virtuousness.
Of note:
Perhaps we should take the time to learn suffixes on Greek derived words.
Someone who has a slave mentality is heteronomous.
Someone who has been forced into slavery is being subjected to heteronomy.
Of course they'd get the vapors if you called the parts of your brakes by thier proper names.
PS:
Even more amusing is they admit on p.B518 that they're aware that slavery didn't always mean Uncle Tom's Cabin.
It must be really painful to deal with the rats racing around inside their skulls trying to reconcile the world the way they want it to be, the world as it is and the world as it was.
GOA got a great ruling from a Federal Court in Texas that appears to nuke the NFA for items where the stamp was dropped to $0 for a large swath of specific people and likely everyone!
Summation here:
The government has 7 days to file an appeal to the, generally, pro-gun 5th circuit.
81 years ago, Little Boy was released from Enola Gay over the Imperial Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Got my pdf copy of GURPS 4e Revised, 4eR from now on, today.
The biggest change is the Basic Set is now a single volume. This isn't too huge because there's several people who reformatted the two books into a single pdf a long time ago.
The big functional change is going from 3-columns to 2-columns. I'm surprised at how much more readable some sections are.
The Combat Lite section has been replaced with Addendum 1 and the pages for the index from GURPS Basic Set: Characters have been given over to Addendum 2.
They're optional rules, and I think I like a couple of them. Even if several characters will need reworked from it.
Some of the new artwork is really meh. Like throwback to OG AD&D meh.
I know there are changes to "make the game more accessible" to people looking to be offended at every turn by being "less offensive" for them.
These changes don't stand out to me because I'm not looking to be offended at every turn. It ends up being mox nix and probably should have just been done without the fucking fanfare they applied to it.
It was the fucking fanfare that was pissing people off, not the changes. People are sick of virtue signalling.
Took a... something to the left front on Moxie.
The 'T' part was encased in rubber that fell apart while I was pulling it out of the tire.
Update: Reader Red's Woodsman appears to have ID'd it. The metal parts of a bicycle brake pad.
Sadly, the plugs don't appear to have taken and the hole still leaks. Time to take it to the local ma & pa tire place for a patch. Update: Ma & Pa tire place charged me the princely sum of $25 to put a patch over the hole that the plug failed to seal.
The back-up camera on Moxie was a blurry mess. $25 plus tax replacement from Amazon and it's crisp and sharp! It's amazingly good now!
Got the oil and filter changed on my father in law's truck. We'd missed the scheduled window because... I was convinced he'd taken it to a shop to have the oil done.
He hadn't. But since we used the extended miles synthetic stuff, prolly no harm.
Having a discussion on a GURPS forum where someone asked how we'd stat out the Santa-Barbara Sistemas 106mm M-DN11 high explosive anti-personnel round.
I posted the description of the round here.
I gave two ways of doing it.
First is to just treat it like it's an HE round and let it do 6dx7(0.5) pi++, linked 6dx3[5d+1] cr ex.
Second is to come up with a new round combining shrapnel and HE which has 1,000 1d-1 pi+ balls expanding from the detonation point with a linked 6dx3 cr ex.
Them: But what about X?
Me: I accounted for X. You forgot a lot of things figuring out the weight of the projectile and your reply to that tells me you have a reading comprehension problem.
Them: But I don't like how you did it!
Me: OK, do it how you like it. I don't think that matches the description of the round and I explained why when I gave stats for the new shrapnel HE round.
Them: But I don't like that way of doing it, what about Y? This makes new rules that do a better job of describing the shape of the pattern that I'm getting wrong because I'm not accounting for the fact that the round is traveling down range at the same time it explodes. Plus, let me compare it to a round I rejected as a model for this earlier.
Me: Don't care. I've figured it out to my liking and it even "will it GURPS" OK with Argentinian and Chilean usage.
Them: But you didn't answer about Y!
Me: Not going to. I explained my reasoning, said I was happy with what I came up with, and didn't need to write new rules. There's no need for Y now that I'm done.
The thing that ticks me off the most about this is Chile and Argentina appear to be the only customers for this Spanish designed and made, German type designated round. It's just not going to come up in anything I'm going to be playing.
The whole rest of the world is using clones of the US designs.
The 90mm M67 Recoilless Rifle is ST 15B†.
If you forget to apply the Rcl 1 for being recoilless it's ST 36B† and Rcl 29.
That's pretty dramatic.
That B in the ST stat means that you really only need 2/3 the ST requirement, or ST 10, to avoid penalties using the weapon... Assuming you actually use the bipod.
The † means you've got to use both hands to wield it and there's a lot on p. B270 that goes with that.
While calculating the stats for the rounds for the M67 90mm reckless ryetuful, I found an oddity.
The M591 HE round is an 81mm mortar round (looks like an M374 round) with a sabot to shim it up to 90mm stuffed into a 90x427mmR case for use in the recoilless rifle. They even left the fins on!
That is relentlessly pragmatic.
The reference I have says it's XM591, so I am not even sure it went into service.
Update: Willard remembers there being HEAT rounds (M371A1) in the ammo bunkers when he was in 2-75 Rangers and heard from troops back from 'Nam using the multi-flechette APERS rounds (M590) but nary a mention of an HE round.
What kind of round is a 106mm M-DN11 HEAP for the M40 family of recoilless rifles in GURPS terms?
The 106 mm HEAP M-DN 11 is a fixed round with the projectile rigidly secured to the perforated steel cartridge case by a crimping groove. The projectile has two indexing buttons 180º apart on the forward bourrelet and a pre-engraved copper drive band encircles the projectile just forward of the base. The projectile is a thin-walled aluminium shell with a conical ogive, filled with 770 g of hexogen with 5 per cent wax. The internal surfaces of the shell body are lined with 1,000 steel pellets set in resin. A nose-mounted M-DN 121 fuze may be preset for either instant impact functioning or delayed action. In either instance the usual blast effects are enhanced by the scattering of the 1,000 steel pellets. The perforated steel cartridge case may either be M93B1 or M94B1, both with an M57 percussion primer press fitted to the base. The propelling charge is 3.65 kg of M26 propellant powder in multiperforated cylindrical grain form, known in Spain as Fil 349. This round has a maximum effective range of 1,500 m, although the maximum range possible is 7,640 m. Muzzle velocity is 560 m/s. This 106 mm (actual calibre 105 mm) recoilless rifle HEAP round is produced in Spain by SANTA BARBARA SA and DEFEX SA. It is primarily intended for anti-matériel or anti-personnel use and contains 1,000 steel pellets.
Ubuntu has three "Power Modes."
Performance, Balanced and Power Saver.
Performance notes, "High performance and power usage."
Balanced notes, "Standard performance and power usage."
Power Saver notes, "Reduced performance and power usage."
I have Balanced selected; or so I thought.
Derpyputer was not performing up to spec and it was right after a restart for an update, a browser update and installing a different music player.
Uh oh. Which of those things broke the computer?
I just endured the slower performance while I waited for my brain to hit a space where I could endure looking for the answer.
Somewhere in here, while tabulating the stats for the Type 64 rifle, I noticed the built in screen would dim much sooner than expected.
So I went into the settings to change the time setting for that.
Turns out there's no discrete setting for that, but this is where I see that "Power Saver" has been selected.
I changed it back to "Balanced" and all is better!
I have no idea how this setting got changed! There's supposedly no keyboard shortcut for it, but I suspect feline involvement.
Japan decided that full up 7.62 NATO was too powerful for its purposes, but also wanted to remain ammo compatible with US forces.
So they made a 7.62x51mm NATO rifle and issued a reduced pressure load to its troops.
For years I didn't have much information on it.
The internet has grown since then.
It's a 139gr bullet at 2,300 fps from the same barrel length as a H&K G3.
The G3 sends a 146gr bullet downrange at 2,625 fps.
The Japanese round, according to Gun Stats will do 5d+2 pi out to 700/2,900. The G3 does 6d+2 pi to 840/3,500 (High Tech says 850/3,750) and so does the Type 64 firing NATO spec ammo!
The Type 62 GPMG, with a longer barrel will do 6d pi out to 730/3,100 and 7d pi to 900/3,800 with NATO spec ammo. That 900/3,800 is the same as what the M14 calculates to, but High Tech says should be 1,000/4,200; plan accordingly.
Why did I figure this out?
I made something of a 'verse hopping setting and the players start as tourists at Ayer's Rock Urulu in Australia when the Japanese invade in 1994 inspired by Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor.
I knew the Type 64 rifle fired a reduced power round, but didn't know things like bullet weight and velocity so I made some shit up and called it good when the players captured a couple guns.
Ever since then, I periodically check up to see if more information has escaped the relentlessly classified JSDF records. It's this kind of secrecy that had the Japanese using the Type 64 in 1994 instead of the 5.56 Type 89!
There's no iTunes for Ubuntu.
There was iTunes on my Win7 and OSX 10.6.8 installs on the dead Mac Pro.
This has led to a discovery of just how much music was in the DRM locked m4p format.
Amazon is happy to sell me the music again in mp3 format without any DRM attached.
SIGH. I sometimes miss Napster.
Going to be a bit of a slog finding and replacing the locked music.
But I get the bitter amusement that this is not the first time I've had to repurchase a large chunk of my music.
I've gone from vinyl to cassette to CD to mp3 to m4p and now back to mp3!
Yay! Fun! Yay!
Harvey found a oscillating fan to replace the dying Lasko on the back porch for half-off at $10.
While it wasn't the sturdiest design, it would have served just fine.
Until I broke it trying to adjust the height.
I didn't have the collet unscrewed far enough to let the shaft slide freely and should not have forced it.
Well, we now have a $32 Lasko fan...
I noticed that I didn't have a song I wanted to listen to on my phone.
Then I discovered that I did have the file on my phone, but it was DRM locked from iTunes. You can't have iTunes on an Android phone.
No problem!
Buy the song, again, from Amazon, in a DRM-free mp3 format.
Plug in the phone to transfer the file.
No little notice asking if I wanna change from charge only to file transfer.
Mutter under breath...
This is the first time I've tried to do this since getting the Samsung, so maybe a default setting is wrong.
Search the search engines for answers. Find them. Change settings.
Plug in phone.
Nothing.
Get frustrated.
Realize that I might have a charger only cord plugged in.
Try different cord.
Get the expected notice asking if I wanna change from charge only to file transfer.
Move song from computer to phone.
In fact, I deleted the contents of the music folder on the phone and replaced it with the music folder on the computer, just to make sure I have all my tunes again.
Canada is moving to have FN's 6.5x43mm LICC NATO standardized. The UK is also interested.
120gr copper OTM bullet at 2,800 fps from a 14.5" barrel.
That's quicker than 6.5 Grendel from a 16" barrel!
Even more fun is it's the same size factor as an AR-15 instead of the M7's AR-10.
Of course, there are GURPS stats, why do you even need to ask?
Swapped the Vortex SPARC AR red-dot for a Vortex Spitfire AR. Ditched the fixed A2 rear sight for a Magpul MBUS3; it's interesting that I'm OK with how this looks with the Magpul handguards where it was unacceptable with the A2 and A1 handguards.
The Spitfire AR is a 1x prism optic with an etched reticle which is much better for my astigmatic eyes than the Star Trek photon torpedo effect of a conventional red-dot.
It's a dot inside two concentric circles.
Disappointingly, it does not have a quick-detach and the base cannot be removed to install one. Hopefully I will be able to use the irons through it. Eyes crossed.
The etched glass protects me somewhat against battery failure and modern optics are getting ever tougher. Vortex has an outstanding warranty too.
First, since the Department of War gets substantial exemptions from the evironmental bullshit laws...
Let's build some nuclear power plants!
Call them training centers for the Navy and use standardized designs they are already using in subs and carriers.
Yes, they are teeny reactors compared to the "real thing," but we can compensate by building lots and lots of them.
Electricity production is a byproduct and we can sell it to the local electrical monopoly or direct to customers at cost. Or at the local rate. Doesn't matter.
Any protesters get stroppy and they're threatening a military base not a Department of Energy facility.
Run it like Lake City and let them sell overruns to the public.
Did some math.
Being a long term hot-rodder it bothers me that the rear gear ratio in The Beast starts with a 2.
2.92:1 to be exact.
I think this bothers me because I had 2.56 gears in my '79 Camaro when I got it and they did not play well with the 305 small block and TH350.
The final ratios were 6.45/3.89/2.56.
It got better when I dropped a 350 small block and found a 2.73 posi rear.
6.88/4.15/2.73.
And a bit perkier with the Jaguar rear's 2.88.
7.26/4.38/2.88.
The Biscayne SS, with a 5.7L LT1 and 4L60E and 3.08 gears got:
9.42/5.02/3.08/2.14
The first gear ratio was like having 3.73 gears in the Camaro, but better than the 2.56 for cruising. Everybody wins!
The Beast's final ratios are:
11.76/6.90/4.44/3.36/2.49/1.95
That's like having a 3.73 rear in the Biscayne or a 4.56 rear in the Camaro for the launch, plus extra gears for mileage. 70 mph highway rpms would be about 2,400 in the Biscayne and 4,200 in the Camaro versus 1,700 in the PPV.
A common mod for a PPV is to go with a 3.27 rear from a 5th Gen Camaro, it's stronger too.
Those ratios end up being:
13.17/7.73/4.98/3.77/2.79/2.18
To match that launch gear the Camaro would have needed 5.38 gears and would "cruise" at almost 4,600 rpm at 70. Yikes!
The Biscayne would need a 4.56 gear set. Cruise rpm would be just over 2,700.
The PPV would cruise at just about 1,900.
I kinda dig these new transmissions. Plus, it doesn't seem like many people are complaining about the 6L80's strength.
If the entire point of the NFA process is about taxes and proving the tax is paid; why is it the only tax that requires fingerprints? And photo ID? And a background check?
I don't need any of that to pay my property taxes.
I don't need any of that to pay my income taxes.
"But this is the registration of an item!"
I don't need any of that to register my car.
In fact, after decades of open border nonsense, they don't even check to see if it's actually ME who's paying my taxes.
All of this adds up to prove that the tax power justification is bullshit.
That was before the taxes on some NFA items dropped to $0.
Now there isn't even a tax power justification to this.
I've also noted silence on getting SBR's and Silencers removed from the NFA lately.
Were we so easily distracted?
Marv and FuzzyGeff's T2K characters are in Złoczew, Poland three days after the battle of Kalisz, July 21, 2000, just before dawn.
Marv's character is wounded.
The NPC's have brought up their M240G and the tripod.
They are ready... Maybe?
Aside: Ubuntu has a handy way to make the 'ł', so did the Mac. Windows made it a pain.
On a whim I took my G17.2 out to the range Tuesday and noticed something.
No little scrape on the side my hand from the slide.
The G17.1 clones scrape my hand. The Gen 2 grip textures were/are an improvement over the Gen 1. Gee, I think I remember reading the GunWriters® saying something about that in the way back...
I shoot low with it, though...
One of the things you get with being a 100% service connected veteran in Florida is a property tax bill of $0.
$1 property? $0 property taxes.
$500 million property? $0 property taxes.
Apparently they will be most affected by the referendum on increasing the homestead exemption.
How?
Increased ad valorem.
Increased ad valorem that everyone will have to pay if the local politicians don't get the message about reducing their bloated budgets.
It's a scare tactic to get us to vote against our own interests in favor of these "poor" veterans.
Oh, a married 100% vet gets $4,158.17 a month ($49,898.04 a year tax free) for their service too. So Mr Young complaining about ad valorem going from $2,000 a year to $4,000 a year can cover it with a single month's check. Or he can space it out and hold $333.33 a month until tax time.
If he's living on that disability check exclusively, he shouldn't be living in a city with $2k ad valorem. I'm willing to bet that he and his wife have jobs and are making decent money and this is just a "I don't wanna spend an extra $167 a month to cover the services of the municipality I've chosen to live in." For example, the total taxes on the inlaws house, where we get no tax breaks, is less than the ad valorem Mr Young claims he's paying.
The average home value in Loxahatchee, according to Zillow, is about $860k. Mr Young is already skipping out on approximately $10k in property taxes every year, but having to pay an extra $2k is going to break him?
I am, myself, a disabled veteran, but I am growing ever sicker of listening to people who are less fucked up than me with a much higher rating complaining about the benefits they're getting. They're the kind of people who say, "You're welcome for my service," unironically.
In the process of trying to find out how much Mr Young is being assessed, I discovered that I should be taking an additional $5k off my home's assessed value because of my own disability rating.
PS: There are approximately 60,000 100% veterans in Florida. That's 0.2% of the population. Yes, let's design our entire tax policy around this teeny constituency.
I'm still wrestling with Gun Stats and round nose bullets.
.30 M1903 uses a 220gr, 1.308" long bullet fired at 2,300 fps.
.30 M1906 uses a 152gr, 1.123" long bullet fired at 2,700 fps.
1903's ranges are 1,240/5,200.
1906's ranges are 890/3,700.
Longer bullets do tend to hold velocity better and, thus, go farther.
The advantage of the lighter, faster, spitzer rounds was supposed to be the flatter trajectory not extended range. This should show in the Accuracy column.
But it doesn't because of the length to diameter ratio of the longer bullet getting a +1 and the relative velocities being in the same bracket.
.30-06 does have a lower ST and Recoil with 9 and 3 versus 10 and 4, making it easier to shoot.
I don't think, as a whole, this passes the reality test.
Iowa is a Constitutional Carry state, so what does, "one count of being a person ineligible to carry dangerous weapons," mean?
Is that how Iowa phrases, "felon in possession?"
But look how far down the article you have to get before you find out that the person with the gun is the victim of a rear-ending and the person who rear ended them has a history of driving without a license and insurance.
That mentioning the behavior of this person post-impact was, in fact, criminal is tossed in as an aside.
This case might end up, eventually, at the Supreme Court over whether felons have the right to own a gun to defend themselves.
And since the cops have, repeatedly, used "tried to run me over" as a positive defense for shooting someone trying to run them over, pulling a gun to get someone who's just rear ended you from continuing to move their car seems fairly justified.
I have tried to say something of this sort before.
Every time I do, the list of banned commenters gets a little longer.
Hawaiian cops have, so far, declined to call assault a hate crime despite use of racial slur.
Racism is racism and if we're going to have hate crime provisions, then they need to be applied to everyone equally.
Gun Stats vehemently disagrees with some of the published ranges.
But here we go anyway!
5.56x45mm M193 from an M16A1: 5d pi, 430/3,000; ST 8, Rcl 2.
5.56x45mm M193 from an XM177E2: 4d+1 pi, 360/2,500; ST 8, Rcl 2.
5.56x45mm M855 from an M16A2: 5d+1 pi, 530/3,700; ST 8, Rcl 2.
5.56x45mm M855 from an M4: 5d-1 pi, 490/3,400; ST 8, Rcl 2.
The Soviet opposition:
7.62x39mm M-43 from an AKM: 5d+1 pi, 520/2,200; ST 9, Rcl 3.
5.45x39mm 7N6 from an AK-74: 4d+2 pi, 480/3,400; ST 9, Rcl 2.
The Loyal Opposition:
6.5 Grendel 123gr @ 2,457 from a 16" AR: 6d-1 pi, 670/4,700; ST 9, Rcl 3.
6.5 SPC II 115gr @ 2,550 from a 16" AR: 6d-1 pi, 760/3,200; ST 8, Rcl 2.
.300 Blackout 123gr @ 2,215 from a 16" AR: 5d pi, 500/2,100; ST 9, Rcl 3.
.300 Blackout 220gr @ 1,010 from a 16" AR: 3d pi, 570/2,400; ST 9, Rcl 3.
22 ARC 75gr @ 2,953 from a 16" AR: 5d+1 pi, 680/4,800; ST 8 Rcl 2.
6mm ARC 108gr @ 2,626 from a 16" AR: 5d+2 pi, 810/5,700; ST 8 Rcl 2.
.30 Remington AR has been discontinued, so we're not going to show that with 125gr @ 2,800 fps from a 22" barrel R-15 did 6d+2 pi, 640/2,700; ST 9, Rcl 3.
One of the most corrosive effects of unions is the need of the business they've extorted to make a profit now that the wages are higher and the sale price of the good is inelastic.
That means you can't just raise prices for you SEIU members.
You can't lower wages, the union has seen to that.
But what if you can get the union worker to make more units in the same time frame?
So you engineer things to be easier to assemble and automate the assembly of as many parts as you can.
I got laughed at for pointing this out, but a bot can make a circuit board with embedded relays on it for lot less than paying a UAW worker to install relays in a fuse box.
Thus, we end up with a $500 part we need to replace because a relay failed rather than a $5 relay.
It's why we have to buy assemblies and cannot buy parts.
Something I keep wondering about is if why do we even have things that can be abused by the government?
Gun registration lists cannot be used by the government to track gun owners if there is no list.
But they make a list and tell us they're not accessing it. Because it's illegal.
I don't want it to be illegal to misuse a list, I want it to be impossible.
The only way for that to happen is for there to be no list at all and not collecting any information that could be used in a list.
Not even if a non-governmental entity holds the list, government will access it.
Flock cameras are the same thing.
Because it is possible for the government to use the information to violate my rights, they will do so. "They have not done so yet!" is a very weak defense and Flock's own spokesman doesn't much reassure me that they won't enthusiastically assist government in fucking me over.
But if there are no Flock cameras...
Sometimes it seems like a given round is underperforming in GURPS.
But it's a game, not a simulation...
For example, the WW2 M82 APC (APEX in GURPS terms) does 6dx10(2) pi++ with a linked 6d+2[4d+2] cr ex.
That was calculated from a formula that gives all six dice their average value of 3.5 to, mostly, match the muzzle penetration value against rolled homogeneous armor.
Thus that round will penetrate DR 420 or rolling a 21 on six dice or ((6x3.5)x10)x2. Dr 420 is 6" (152.4mm) of RHA.
But you could roll a 6 on six dice, do 60 damage and penetrate 120 DR or 1.7" or 43.5mm.
OR you could roll a 36 on six dice and do 360 damage and penetrate 720 DR or 10.3" or 261.3mm.
Officially it penetrates 143mm or 5.6" or DR 393 or 6dx9(2) pi++. At the muzzle.
Gun Stats gives it a little extra performance.
Realistically, that 393 points of damage should be at the muzzle and it should get smaller as the range increases.
But you can roll all ones for 6x10 at 1 yard and all sixes for 36x10 at 6,660 yards.
Again, game.
Balance between playable and accurate.
It's hard to strike sometimes.
The randomness of the dice and the chance at unrealistic results allows the game to account for anecdotal stories where people went, "Did you see that shit?"
A DR 4 M1 helmet will not stop even the minimum damage of a 7d pi K.98k, but there's examples where the round bounced off. Result of a miss by two? A miss by one is a torso hit (ever notice that all misses by 1 go low not high?) The GM has to provide narration to what's going on to the players.
There's examples of "no way that will penetrate" going right on through.
Things tend to GURPS. It's what I like about the game.
I don't wanna have to do the math that calculates the impact angle against the angle of the armor's slope and the velocity at that EXACT range.
Dice will suffice.
