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Thread: Non-AoE with our mods
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wetti wrote:
they recently changes the rocket launcher into a none aoe weapon
How does that make any sense? A rocket explodes on contact... I guess our new rockets have boxing gloves on springs attached to the end... better yet perhaps their mounting cream pies....
The Sabot round when it "exploded" would still induce an area concussion... that concussion is what would produce the knockdown. The ejection of the charge may be "shaped" but the concussion is always spherical.
Mind you this isn't a real world so in that case physics goes right out the door.
EDITED: Rethought...
PARSING THE ABOVE:MostSabot rounds are strictly Kinetic Energy based. If the Sabot round was strictly a metallic dart then AoE would not imply. So Sabot as a single target striker could apply.
Message Edited by Zade_Taerin on 08-12-2005 04:54 PM
Zade_Taerin wrote:
The Sabot round when it "exploded" would still induce an area concussion... that concussion is what would produce the knockdown. The ejection of the charge may be "shaped" but the concussion is always spherical.
Mind you this isn't a real world so in that case physics goes right out the door.
EDITED: Rethought...
PARSING THE ABOVE:MostSabot rounds are strictly Kinetic Energy based. If the Sabot round was strictly a metallic dart then AoE would not imply. So Sabot as a single target striker could apply.
Message Edited by Zade_Taerin on 08-12-2005 04:54 PM
There ya go. You caught on to what I was refering to.
A Sabot round with a good deal of force behind it would simply pierce the target and in many cases pass through to the other side. Such an impact would still prove to be fatal, yet would not be an AoE attack. Whereas a HE shell would hit and explode causing AoE. Clearly the HE shells were swapped for Sabot rounds. I would prefer to have the option to switch on the go myself. 
...and I think the comment of a shaped charge may have been more to do with a HEAT (not to be confused with HE) round that would impact and shape the explosion using the heat and explosion to penatrate armor instead of being a metal rod and peircing armor like a sabot.
Message Edited by KJFett3 on 08-12-2005 02:11 PM
Sabot instead of HE
Zade_Taerin wrote:
wetti wrote:
they recently changes the rocket launcher into a none aoe weapon
How does that make any sense? A rocket explodes on contact... I guess our new rockets have boxing gloves on springs attached to the end... better yet perhaps their mounting cream pies....
