Weird equipment stats

[Majicou]

I'm in need of stats for some disparate equipment in my upcoming campaign.
To wit: the "isolation suits" from Insurrection (don't know why they weren't in The Price of Freedom) and a gunpowder-based pistol of some kind (my players are off to a primitive planet.)

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"Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand." -Anon.

[Diamond]

I think the Player's Guide has the isolation suit. The TOS core book has the flintlock rifle. Holodeck adventures has many types of gunpowder guns - tommyguns and pistols for the film noir genre and lots of primitive musket types for the pirate genre.

The guy who wrote up ICON ALIENS had several advanced gunpowder weapons written up at http://home.austin.rr.com/jdominion/...ns/weapons.htm

[Majicou]

Well, the Colonial Marines these people are not. Sure makes me wish I could get hold of some of these books...

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"Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand." -Anon.

[Traska]

After seeing that the Borg couldn't adapt to projectiles like they could energy weapons, y'ever wonder why Starfleet didn't start equipping every ship's armory with at least a few assault rifles? =)

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[Phantom]

I started thinking about it right after the scene in FC.

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In the Praetors Name!

[Roxby]

In my campaign, they have begun to adopt Gauss weapons. Fundamentally, magnetic slug throwers. They work rather well...

but wait 'til the Borg start neutralizing local magnetic fields.

maybe the flintlock isn't such a bad idea.

-R

[Roxby]

whoops! double post...

Really Don, I *swear*!!!

I'm NOT board spamming....



-R

[This message has been edited by Roxby (edited 08-07-2001).]

[Phantom]

That's why the good old fashioned lead ball propelled by a chemical explosion still seems best.

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[Brian K]

heh, all this bullets vs. Borg talk made me think of Ewoks wiping out Stormtroopers, which made me think of Ewoks beating off the Borg.

Must be the medication.

[Antonsb214]

What level of weapons tech do these people have? Gunpowder firearms have been going through constant change for the past few hundred years, from medieval hand cannons to state of the art assault rifles. Basically you start with hand cannons (a metal tube attached to a stick, loaded with powder and shot and fired by touching a lit bit of match to the "touch hole and boom!), then you have your basic matchlocks and wheellocks(the early muskets), then the flintlock (Brown Bess muskets, Kentucky rifles), then the percussion lock (like a flint lock but uses a "cap" to set off charge instead of steel striking flint, these include the Springfield rifle-musket and cap-and-ball revolvers), then we get to early cartridge weapons (Henry rifles and "Yellow Boys), then we wind up in the modern "smokeless powder" age, OK lecture over... any questions?

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[qerlin]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Phantom:
That's why the good old fashioned lead ball propelled by a chemical explosion still seems best.

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Amen, brother! Assimilate this, mo-fo!

[qerlin]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Brian K:
heh, all this bullets vs. Borg talk made me think of Ewoks wiping out Stormtroopers, which made me think of Ewoks beating off the Borg.

Must be the medication.</font>

Hey, the ewoks would kick Borg ass...just their sheer cute, cuddly marketability would make them run for the next galaxy over.

[Phantom]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by qerlin:
Amen, brother! Assimilate this, mo-fo!</font>

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. Blow 'em apart and let the queen sort 'em out.



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[Dan Gurden]

To the Venture players.

Dont expect this to work... For some reason the collective has adapted to projectile weapons...

Its called armour and shields... hey if a deflector shield can stop micro-metereorites, and the Borg have deflectors... So the adaption technology is there...

My own personal take on FC was that the energy matrix of the holographic bullets was what got the borg, if another drone had shown up Picard would have been up a certain geographic anomaly without a method of propulsion...

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[Diamond]

In First Contact, it wasn't so much that the Borg were vulnerable to bullets, but that they were vulnerable to HOLOGRAPHIC bullets. I'm sure the Borg have encountered bullets before, and could adapt to them. But that scene may well have been the first time they were shot by holographic bullets. I was really impressed by Picard's ingenuety in that scene.

I can only wonder why the Borg are so vulnerable to unpowered melee weapons, like those klingon blades Worf used. I can only hypothesize that since the Borg could use their assimilation tubes in close combat, they did not fear melee weapons. And thus shielding against that was not worth the resources it would take.