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Originally Posted by ChalkLine
Another thought is that the Picatinny Rail was standardised in 1995.
It could be assumed that every weapon was modified for this attachment by the general engagement in the Twilight War
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Heh. I was explaining the game to my teen son and his pals, and had to explain that the timeline took place before the Picatinny rail. That just blew their little videogaming minds.
A GM could assume that the rail /was/ adopted in the buildup to war, maybe some units got them by the US intervention in late '96, maybe most of them by the '97 offensive, but there could still be lots of weapons floating around without them.
You could also assume that they never got standardized in the rush to get more weapons out to the field NOW. I was just reading (again) about the Union Army's opting against breechloaders in 1862, so there's precedent for that kind of decision.
09-21-2018, 02:37 PM
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