CyberMurph

Um, did not know there was one! If I'm not working I may just do that...

Don't forget all of the natural disasters and economice collapes around the world in Cyberpunk. Hard to make any big technological advances without the capital to pump into the research!

I'm sure the AK-47 will continue to be quite prolific over the next 50 years!

Check Rad's Cyberpunk gun page. He has a pretty good selection. Not a lot of variety in stats, but GREAT pictue that definatly help add to the atmosphere. He probably has some CP2020 Saturday Night Specials for ya!

"I do enjoy giving the chars what they want, though. Which really is too bad for them, as the only thing I enjoy more is taking it away again."

Jester- I like the way you think man

Didn't some scientist make a tiny frog levitate? Didn't it take a a nuclear power plant to power the machine or something?

I'm not as up on sci-tech as most of you folks.  

I go for paranoia!

The next campaign I run looks like they guys want to be a poser gang. They are debating what the theme will be. It looks like "That '70s Poser Gang" (for those familiar with the American TV show)

The last campaingn I ran they were corporate cops. Internal affairs for Arasaka investigating the murder of a VP. Of course they got caught up in a vast conspriacy (sort of a palace revolt).

My players NEVER...

know who to trust

know who is after them

Get to keep really kewl "kit" for very long

never have much money

But they ALWAYS

Get to shoot stuff

Have control of the GENERAL flow of the campaign

have lots of laughs

have lots of psychosocially violent fun

First of all, Europe has been telling France who they can have as their leader since the revolution. I thought you all would be used to that by now.  

Second, This country was founded by gun toting nutters and dont you forget it.

Third, How much do you all pay in taxes?

Fourth, in a world ruled by corps, at least you can climb the corporate ladder.

Fianlly, I cannot think of anything else, except to say that the French Riviera rocks!!

Darthmurph

Gun toting nut case and future rich white man.

Remember that big black 18 wheeler they had on "Knight Rider"? (Admit it you watched it!)

You could do something similiar with that cool Peterbilt 2000. Or the BMW2020 from Maximum Metal.

unless of course some one is jamming the signal going to your GPS. They need to receive a signal after all. There are options for that. North seeking Gyros combined with an odometer could work on a vehicle. Just enter you current location from a surveyed point and off you go. Be harder for dismounted folks though!

and where would you throw said molotov cocktail at, on an M1 tank?

Well, there are certain former military folks from the Balkans cooling their heels in Belgium that would have been better off not violating a whole slew of international laws.

Dragoon Cav's comment was accurate...in 1944. Things have changed a bit since then. You are not going to do much damage to a tank with a bullet.

Now a short range AT missile like the Eryx, or a shaped satchel charge on the engine deck is a different story.

Tanks are also vulnerable if one is dumb enough to lead with tanks in a city. Now lead with infantry and follow with tanks, that's a mean combination to take downtown.

Well, I am not sure I am going to actually use THE aliens from the movie. I am going with more of the corporate consipracy to cover up sentient alien contact, similiar to Walter Jon William's book "Voice of the Whirlwind".

I like the dark, dirty clunky feel of Aliens.

I also like the paranoia of Cyberpunk.

The way I run my games if the players do get their hands on something cool it does not last long.

Once in an adventure finale' they ran into a Dragoon FBC. I had allowed them to get one of the BAGs (Big Ass Guns) from CB2. I let them keep it to kill the Dragoon, but it mysteriously malfunctioned and blew up by the end of the adventure.

I guess my point is, even if they do wind up on a starship they won't be piloting around in the Millenium Falcon or buying "star pilot" skill. They'll just be along for the ride.

Most of the snipers in Tuzla and Sarejevo during the Balkan war used deer rifles or AKs. Some had the old Druganov (sp?).

Like Chrysalis said, it depends on what you are trying to do. If you are assassinating someone from 1200m yu better get some sort of super-bitch sniper set up in a crazy caliber likre .300Weatherby. If you are just trying to pin down an infantry squad, any reliable, hard hitting weapon will do.

*LOL*

Something I have been doing for a game I am going to run this summer is sending out "screamsheets" on email leading up to the gaming session. To kind of build anticipation.

Using CP looking fonts and CP jpegs I got off the CP top 100 web sites I make screemsheets about the world background, character classes, equipment etc.

When the players roll up their characters I will start sending out screamsheets with more relevant info. In fact I will be able to start the adventure in the middle of a firefight because I will have briefed all the players on the story line leading right up to the first game session.

Lends some background and atmosphere, plus builds up excitement for the players (I hope!) Maybe this way we won't be starting "cold" we will have been playing in a way before we even get started. And thanks to email it requires little to no time/effort on their part.

i-Kore has some decent figures too.

http://www.brookhursthobbies.com/

Yup. Drill sergreants, lieutenants. Lazy MFs who don't bother to walk their happy asses over to the JAG office and get a lawyer who actually knows WTF he/she's talking about. That's how I learned the truth of the matter.

Well, it does make a difference when you have soldiers who think it is illegal to engage troops with their M2 .50 cal or their 12 Ga shotgun (which it is not). You get these rumors that started in the Korean war and will not go away. Very frustrating for leaders.

Oh, BTW, Hague IV specifically states that it only applies to signatories of the convention at war with each other. So Al-Qaeda and Taliban are not signing members. So theoretically if one said FA CPT were to get deployed to Afghanistan he could bring some soft lead nosed 5.56mm with him... read Black Hawk Down anyone?

I guess you could like choke on the Tylenol?

And EVERYTHING is better that the Twilight:2000 rules. What a dumb ass game THAT was...

Wonder why they went out of buisness?

Actually you are all wrong.

I love you guys. You get me all worked up!

There are 4 Geneva Conventions.

The treatment of the wounded in the field

The treatment of wounded and shipwrecked at sea

The treatment of prisoners of war

Treaties regarding the Civilian Population.

NONE of them even remotley mention types of ammunition or the use of them. I'll buy anyone a pint who can quote for me verbatim the Convention and Article of that convention that covers ammuniton in the Geneva COnventions. Because it don't exist.

Go to your local library and look it up. It's free.

What do exist are the Hague Conventions.

Hague IV, 2 July 1899 Prohibits the use of expanding bullets. "...bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core, or is pierced with incisions."

Laws and Customs of War on Land, Hague IV, Oct 18 1907 prohibits the following.

a) Poison or poisoned weapons

To kill or wound treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army;

c) To kill or wound and enemy who having laid down his arms or having no longer means of defense has surrendered at discretion

d) To declare that no quarter will be given

e) EMPLOY ARMS, PROJECTILES, OR MATERIAL CALCULATED TO CAUSE UNNECESSARY SUFFERING

f) To make improper use of a flag of truce, the national flag, or military uniform of the enemy, as well as distinctive badges of the Geneva Convention (Red Cross Armbands etc)

g) Destroy or seize the  enmeny's property, unless demanded by the necessities of war

h) to declsre, abolish, suspend, or inadmissable in a court of law the rights and actions of the nationalsof a hostile party.

If you dont believe me look er up.

Darth Murph,

King of All Geek Knowledge

I don't know, but the G-11 sure never went anywhere.

Check out these sites.

www.HKpro.com

http://www.hecklerkoch-usa.com/home.htmlw.h

That depends on what the snipers mission is. If you are just trying to harass/tie down a unit (i.e. the sniper in "Full Metal Jacket") then a three reound burst would be usefull.

For precision fire three round bursts are inaccurate. That is one thing FNFF gets right. The 3 rd burst, center mass at close range will often put 3 rounds into a target, but at longer ranges even if the first round hits the others will have drifted and may miss completely.

Wow. This is interesting. I did not know such things existed. It does however remind me alittle too much of work...

Thanks for the link though!