Pirates of the Visutula

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Raellus

IMHO, the module gives the PCs way too much 12.7mm ammo. My group steamed all the way from Krakow to the Baltic and never came close to running out, even though I'd occassionally "lose" rounds or inflate the round count after a firefight. I highly recommend scaling it way back.

I'd happily stick with the ammo count described in the module, but it's the Twilight War right? So one in every three or two in every three rounds fails to fire. Then watch the fun as the players try to decide which character/s gets the fun job of visually inspecting each of those 20,000 rounds and delinking the ones they think are duds. And even then there's no guarantee that they won't have constant misfires during every firefight. Good times.

Originally Posted by Judge Holden

While looking at weapon systems I came across the 30mm ASP which some light internet research revealed is a gas operated weapon. What does this entail -what type of gas does it use? I'm sure it's not gasoline, so I'm imagining metal 'bottles' like a welder uses.

This is how gas operated firearms work: Gas-operated reloading. We also have at least one gunsmith on this forum who I'm sure is thoroughly well versed in gas operated firearms.

I've always found the American use of the word "gas" to describe petrol as being kind of odd. Petrol's not even a gas when it's burned in an internal combustion engine, it's a fine mist. I guess it must have originally been an abbreviation of "gasoline". Here in Australia if you have a vehicle that needs "gas" it would be one that runs on LPG or CNG. Way to go mangling a perfectly good language, Americans!