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How about a black GMC van with a red stripe down the side?

Remember that your $15 pistol has to have a $7,000 cyberscope on it.

The G-11 was suppossed to fire a three round burst at 2000rpm. It is claimed that the firer would not react to the recoil until after the last bullet had left the muzzle. Does anybody know if this worked in practice?

And when this driverless car with a freaking great hole in the floor and roof causes a pileup, that doesn't count as collateral damage?

That does not surprise me in the slightest, but I was talking about the cadet version which is an L-85/SA-80 with the gas parts stripped out so it is boltaction only and with iron sights instead of the SUSAT. I think the official designation is the L-84 Cadet GP.

I have used the SUSAT on an L-86, but I couldn't get full advantage of it because of my sighting problems and ended up shooting off into the butts about 15 degrees up and to the left.

I remember it being designated the L-84, maybe that's just me.

I also remember:

1)The idea that if you held the trigger down and kept working the bolt you would get an autofire efffect.

2) The liason sergent telling us that if you did put the oil bottle for the L-85 in the clip on top of the barrrell designed to take it, then it would cook off and explode.

3) Trying to aim a right-handed weapon with my left eye.

L85 anybody?

I've never used it, but I'm drawing that conclusion from the facts that:

a)People say its sh@@@t

& (much more importantly)

As far as I'm aware, no other military in the world has bought the damn thing.

Something very cool and CP I saw and bought yesterday, I don't know if anyone has seen something like this before in any other country but I'm guessing this is a test.

  Its a can of coffee, Nescafe to be precise, with milk (and sugar if you want) premixed and with an integral heat source (I forget which chemicals but I can look it up). Pop the tab on the bottom, shake and wait. In three minutes its piping hot, I haven't drunk it yet, but it sounds cool. Retailing at £1.39 (about U$2).

One Gm'd crop is very prevelent, the wheat used to make CHOOH2. If I had Corp 3 at this moment I could give you the technical name. Most farms in the US seem to be largely machine run, automated and corporate controlled.

I can envisage a lot of food being GM, as few people are in a position to care about how their food is made as long as they get some. Europe mighy be different, as the agricultural lobby there is very strong (especially in France), you would probably still get small, inefficient and heavily subsidized farms across the EEC (except in the UK, thank IMA for that). As agricultural subsidies and the CAP are a major issue involved in extending the EU eastwards IRL you could expect more of the same in 2020.

     In case anyone doesn't know and wants to:

       The French, Spanish, Portuguese Italians and Greeks don't want their trough taken away.

       The Poles, Hungarians and other applicant countries don't want to come in as second class citizens.

       The British and Germans aren't going to pay both groups.

This is why Militech will never exist;

In the CP2020 timeline the standard US service rifle changed four times in 30 years:

     M-16

     FN-SAF

     Militech Ronin

     Militech Mark IV

That's not counting the CG-13 and M-31AI in limited use.

How big is thier military budget and who is Militech bribing?

Quote (Halo @ April 20 2002,03:39)

I know 46 dead cops is a lot worse than 46 dead gangers, consequence-wise, but neither one seemed outside the range of silly occurrences in CP.

Stupidest thing my party has ever done?

We were running with a nomad pack and were sent to Vegas to get some of our friends out of jail.

We park up outside and I go inside to see these two guys the cops are holding. One of the other PCs (big, dumb solo) decides to amuse himself by zooming up and down the street doing wheelies, RIGHT OUTSIDE THE POLICE STATION.

A couple of cops come out and ask him to stop. To this day I remain unsure exactly how they managed to mess that up, but it elevated into a full scale firefight, I seem to recall somebody being stuck to the floor with a crossbow bolt through their foot. While this is going on, my character is going down to the cells, disarmed and under escort by two cops.

  GM turns to me and says:

      "As you walk through the station, you hear alarms going off and cops running by pulling on flak jackets and riot gear."

  Me:"I ignore it, after all I know the  other PCs wouldn't be stupid enough to get involved in a firefight outside the police station."

I was quite happy that a)Someone other than me had done something stupid and b)I had a cast iron allibi.

Jose Bove tries to corner the world market for dairy produce by destroying Wisconcisn?

We could call it "Roquefort is forever".

Imagine Shirley Bassey doing that:

          "Roquefort is Forever"

           It can stimulate and tease me,

           It is creamy, blue and cheesy,

           You can spread it on crackers,

           or have it with bread.

           I don't want Brie,

           For what good will Brie do me?

           Roquefort never lies to me,

           For while Brie grows mou-ou-ou-ou-ould

           Roquefort just po-oooooooooo-ngs."

I've decided that Castro will outlive the US itself.

That what depends what your definition of the word "a" means.

How can you slag off Al Gore?

He's a genius.

The man invented the Internet, thereby allowing people from all over the world to get together and say nasty things about him.

In any case, wasn't his dad a career politcian from Tenessee?Didn't he inherit his seat from him? And wasn't he even able to win that state in the Presidential election?

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Hasn't it also got something to do with the fundamental design of naval guns?

By my understanding they are "guns" under strict definition, firing at as high velocity as possible and on a flat tragectory. This is especially true of the 16" on the IOWA class which are designed for blasting the sjit out of Yamato class battleships and not amphibious fire support.

Ground based artillery can fire to an optimum tragectory and also can reach over terrain, hence overall better accuracy.

I know I shouldn't be asking this but...

What the f@@**ck kind of business transaction requires a loaded shotgun IRL?

Also;

Does rank have an IP mod?

Does it allow you to get fellow board members to come and bail you out of tight spots?

Does this mean Phipps is our leader?

If you kill someone ranked higher than you do you get their stars?

On a similar note...

I've being looking through the archives, riiiiiight back. How many of those who were posting in the beginning are still around?

What do we think is the average members number of posts and "lifetime"?

I think this is a very early example of "Style over substance." It goes right back to Homer and is a particulary western way of fighting (see Victor David Hansens "The Western Way of War".)

Real, heroic, men, stand in the line of battle and fight hand to hand alongside their neighbours and aristocratic equals. Bows, slings and other missile weapons are for cowardly, degenerate, womanish oriental homosexuals. The classical medieval knight fits fully in this tradition. A tradition which oriental warriors with greater mobility and ranged weapons were able to exploit for over a millennia.

Arguably Roman and Greek bows were not very good because they were ideologically as well as practically unsuitible for the type of warfare practiced. The same was true of the Germans, europe being a LOT more forested then. Scythians, Persians and Parthians were able to use the bow to great effect, had the demand been there the Romans would have used it more and developed it to their own ends.

A weapon is not always soley or even primarily a way of killing your enemy, its function as a mark of status can be as, if not even more important.

I believe they had no line of supply at all. They were essentially a defeated, outnumbered and starving army when they fought.

5,000 archers?

1,000,000 arrows in half and hour?

That means each fires 2,000 arrows.

Ok, theoretically possible if you maintain maximum possible rate of fire continously but how likely is that? Even if you have practicing every Sunday since birth you are going to get tired doing that.

An enemy is going to have trampled you into the mud, died or fled long before you can fire that many arrows at them (unless its Gringoleader's players in which case they'll just stand there and take it).

Musketmen only carried about 40-60 rounds for a whole days fighting; modern infantry only carry what? 200-300 rounds each? At 600 rpm thats 30 seconds worth.

Better take a bayonet.

How practical do we think solar panels are likely to be for this purpose?

Do what the Parthians did at Carrae (sp?) and have thousands of camels laden with arrows in reserve.

Steal, borrow/purchase.

It requires genetically enginereed grain (easy enough to steal if you don't mind annoying Petrochem); it then has to be cracked, fermented and distilled into CHOO2H by a process patented by Biotechnica and used by I think 16 corps worldwide under licence.

Problems:

       a) The equipment to do this is not remotely portable.

        Doing it without a licence would attract the attention of a lot of rich corps with deep pockets and bad attitudes, especially if you start to do it for other than personal use.

Yeah, pretty much, sorry.

However: Footnote on page 7 of Brainware Blowout

          "These prices represent after-market conversion to a standard deck. If the referee wishes he can create factory cyberdecks which have these modifications for as little as one tenth of the listed price per modification."

The cheepest cyberdeck in the whole system comes in at 500 eb new, it breaks if you drop it and tends to crash permenently.

You will probably have to throw the rules for starting cash in the book right out if you want a viable weefle, otherwise the max starting cash will be 2,000eb. Enough to buy a cyberdeck OR interface plugs OR programs, but not all three.

Brainware Blowout does have everything (and more), if you can't get that then Chromebook 3 has a good selection.