John Atkinson wrote: > >And yes: RPG warheads are considerably bigger than hand grenades, and the > >big fragments from RPG fin assemblies etc. tend to go considerably further > >than (and are dangerous at considerably longer distances as) hand grenade > >shrapnel. FWIW this is a major problem for us at work, since certain > >customers of ours want to cut the arming distances of our products > >*waaayyy* shorter than we're able to guarantee that their gunners won't > >kill themselves <shudder> > >"Gosh, I thought it was a directional explosion. . . " > >Something like that? Hehehe. . .
Sometimes I get that impression, yes... though I wouldn't laugh about it if I were you :-/ >Of course, Third Worlders are notoriously cavalier about such >things-- ...yeah, but those particular customers of ours I'm thinking of aren't Third Worlders... > >>You don't--and are exceedingly unlikely to hit ANYTHING at that range. > >> At least, from what I've seen. Most of the time RPGs are fired under > >>100m, > > > > Um, John... last time I checked 150' was less than half as far as 100m. But > > maybe you Americans have much bigger feet than the Imperial ones I'm used > > to? ;-) > >Feet. . . right. Feet. Excuse me while I go flagellate myself. I'm >used to thinking in meters so much that my eye glossed right over the >little '. I just assumed that a European would be using meters. Plenty of European tabletop gamers are surprisingly fluent in the smaller Imperial measures of distance since the rules we grew up with were English ones from before the conversion <g> Later, Oerjan [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it." -Hen3ry _______________________________________________ Gzg-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu:1337/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ground Zero Games" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gzg-group?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
