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Ok here are a couple of questions that I have and i would like some answers too

1. Is there a book or suppliment out there that shows artwork and/or more weapons for PC's in the Mechwarrior universe? I like a visual repersentation of what characters are armed with and would like the info?

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2. Some of the wepons just don't make sense to me. For example, the Zeus Heavy rifle sounds alot like a Barret .50 BMG sniper rifle.

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The range for this weapon should be more at the top end of ballistic weaponry (the current distance record with this weapon is over 2 miles in Afghanistan by Canadian SpecForces).

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Did you also notice that most vehicle-mounted weapons have vastly shorter ranges than personal weapons and real world weapons? A 155mm AC/20 has a range of 270 meters under normal rules (vs. 420m for the Zeus), while 155mm cannons in the real world have ranges of 20 miles or more. Yet - get this - the standard AC/20 has a meteoric muzzle velocity of 6,000 to 10,000 meters per second (fast enough to reach orbit), versus the high end of modern tank cannons (1700m/s).

And the 1-ton medium laser has a range (with standard rules) of 270 meters, too, while a standard laser rifle has a range of 1100m.

One might start to think that some compromises have been made in the name of producing a playable game rather than rigidly mimicking reality.

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Another example is the Federated Long rifle. A 10 shot rifle in the 3060's. That is like soliders of today using Muskets from the War of Northern Aggression.

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The Federated Long Rifle is a semi-automatic sniper/squad marksman's rifle, akin to the real M110 (10 or 20rnd clips), PSG 1 (5 or 20 round clips), M21 (5, 10, or 20 round clips), M40 (5 rounds only), etc. Not everyone in the universe uses a 60-round clip to spray-n-pray like Rambo.

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Mike Miller, Materials Engineer

Disclaimer: Anything stated in this post is unofficial and non-canon unless directly quoted from a published book. Random internet musings of a BattleTech writer are not canon.

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