Combat Medic Archive
Thread: Throwing ranges...
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Rianna_Rose
Thu Apr 29, 2004 8:48 pm
#1
I'm still wondering how a "weak" combat medic can throw his "grenades" up to 64m (by design and easily exeeded up beyond 100m) yet "big strong" commandos can only throw grenades out to 32m (no way to exceed)....
(background:I was a master commando and dropped it to go politician.. and am now working on CM)
I also love how theideal range on the Proton grenades is inside the blast radius.. I used to blow myself up all the time... hehe, itwas quite fun back before decay.
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Rianna_Rose
Thu Apr 29, 2004 8:49 pm
#2
I'm still wondering how a "weak" combat medic can throw his "grenades" up to 64m (by design and easily exeeded) yet "big strong" commandos can only throw grenades out to 32m (no way to exceed)....
I also love how theideal range on the Proton grenades is inside the blast radius.. I used to blow myself up all the time... hehe, itwas quite fun back before decay.
you have been incappacitated!
your proton grenade hits a syck for 4000 damage!
your proton grenade hits a syck for 3500 damage!
your proton grenade hits a syck for 4200 damage!
your proton grenade hits apile of bonesfor 6100 damage!
your proton grenademisses a syck.
your proton grenade hits a syck for 4000 damage!
you've been hit by a proton grenade for 3000 damage!
Pahdbacca
Thu Apr 29, 2004 8:51 pm
#3
Big shoulders from dragging incapacitated 'big strong' commandos
Danathal
Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:18 pm
#5
I think it is a mass issue personally.
Grenade = explosives = heavy crap goes boom.
Poision = airborne virus, or what have you. in a glass shell.... = perfect size and shape to toss, say.... 96 meters into a crowd of people casually crossing the street.
Rianna_Rose
Fri Apr 30, 2004 6:44 am
#6
sorry but I'll have to disagree with you about the weapon designs... when I hear commando.. I think of a football player type build... big arms from carrying heavy weapons and yada yada... grenades are meant to be thrown and are not huge heavy things5 to32 ounces... some grenades even have a bottled neck to aid throwing for non baseball/football types... (sorry I'm an un-official military historian and EX Military) When I think of a Combat medic... I think of my ex-husband... scrawny 140 lb guy that spends alot of type in the lab.. andCombat medswould not beany smaller than grenades or even lighter... here's a nice test for you based off your theory.... take a baseball and a test tube... try tossing each across a football field and tell me which has better accuracy and distance... regardless of how athletic you are.
oh... and across the street MIGHT be 20m... so now think about tossing that viral agent down an entire football field...
if you want some links to actual grenades and such I'll give them out...
Message Edited by Rianna_Rose on 04-30-2004 09:45 AM
Mild-Breeze-Trooper
Fri Apr 30, 2004 7:43 am
#7
Ok... think of it this way:
Commandos all were sports jocks in High School
All artisans were nerds
Now, combat medics are the guys smart enough to make their own weapons instead of buying them from they guys whose heads they swirled in the toilets on a daily basis.
"Hell, of course it's safe to use... do I have any reason to cause you grievious bodily harm?"
Brainplay
Sat May 01, 2004 5:46 am
#8
Even commandos have medics in their platoons. Not all commandos were jocks since alot of jocks washout of training. Commandos are the ones with rock hard determination and will. The body can be built up with training but refining a mind is something that takes too long for the military elite. Either you go it and we'll make it better or you dont and you can go back to your gimp infantry wannabe company.
Take a baseball player and put him on a flat baseball field. Give him a grenade and have him throw it as far as he can. Guess what, he's still in range of the shrapnel when it goes off.
Commandos carry rocket launchers, multiple grenades, ammo, food, etc. Combat medics carry, medical supplies, grenades, ammo, food and other commandos. Try hauling a 200lb guy in full gear (you got your own gear on too) at a full sprint for 20yards while someone is trying to put a small piece of lead in your arse. Doctors are the shrimps who are indoors all day in a lab looking at stuff under the microscope. Next time you talk with a military combat type, try and tell him his platoon medic is a skinny shrimp who doesn't have to work as hard as he does. He'll send you to see the combat medic after he's ripped your arm off.
Danathal
Sat May 01, 2004 9:16 am
#9
Rianna_Rose wrote:
sorry but I'll have to disagree with you about the weapon designs... when I hear commando.. I think of a football player type build... big arms from carrying heavy weapons and yada yada... grenades are meant to be thrown and are not huge heavy things5 to32 ounces... some grenades even have a bottled neck to aid throwing for non baseball/football types... (sorry I'm an un-official military historian and EX Military) When I think of a Combat medic... I think of my ex-husband... scrawny 140 lb guy that spends alot of type in the lab.. andCombat medswould not beany smaller than grenades or even lighter... here's a nice test for you based off your theory.... take a baseball and a test tube... try tossing each across a football field and tell me which has better accuracy and distance... regardless of how athletic you are.
Good point.
SWG != Real.
JudasTyberius
Sat May 01, 2004 10:41 am
#10
Grenades are heavy. Fact.
They are exposives wrapped in a solid metal shell. A 5 ounce grenade would MAYBE be a stun or flash bang. No damage there. I have read numerous times about people trying to baseball throw a grenade and tearing their rotator cuff, due to the weight. This is why they invented Grenade Launchers... Which commandos should fully have.
Danathal
Sat May 01, 2004 11:45 am
#11
The US army M67 Fragmentation Grenade has a Kill radius of 15 meters and a danzer zone of 150 Meters.
Weight: 16 ounces.
See This Web Page for more info. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m67.htm
Message Edited by Danathal on 05-01-2004 02:45 PM
Message Edited by Danathal on 05-01-2004 02:46 PM
Brainplay
Mon May 03, 2004 5:54 am
#13
Grenade: Big metal ball thingamajig that goes boom due to large amounts of explosives. Should only belobbed from a covered position to do area damage to the enemy. May also be thrown into a closed room/building to turn human beings into pretty red wall mosiacs.
Ranged stimpacks (aka happy blue balls of luv): Bacta (or noxious poison) filled water ballonsincluding some equipted with asmall explosive for the area effect.
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