Rifleman Archive
Thread: Straight from the Essential guide to Weapons and Technology
Ok thats it for today. Tomorrow I will post the Purebreed Sniper Rifles 
Enjoy!
Sorry for the delay, here is the Sniper rifles as promised.
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Merr-Sonn SX-451 Heavy Sniper Rifle
The Merr-Sonn SX-451 Heavy Sniper Rifle is one of the premier heavy sniper rifles on the market today. It is closer to a piece of light artilery than it is to a personal weapon. The mission of the SX-451 is to destroy material, vehicles and crew-served weapons from a distance, usually outside of the enemy's perimeter. It is also being used by law enforcement authorities to neutralize armed criminals who are hiding behind cover capable of stopping a lesser shot, to destroy explosive devices where they lay and to disable a felon's escape vehicle.
Having the range and power of the famous BlasTech E-Web heavy repeating blaster, the SX-451 is not a small weapon. It is nearly two meters long and 15 kilograms in weight, making it unsuitable for all but a few specialized missions.
For transportability, the rifle breaks down into four pieces (barrel and scope, bipod, action and stock) and packs into a case or a specially-built packframe. Reassembly takes about a minute, with no special tools (just a credit chip, screwdriver or other similar tool). The scope is built under license from BlasTech, as it utilizes the thermal, ultraviolet and passive light enhancement composite image systems normally found on such weapons as the Sharpshooter V and the AT-1 rifles, while improving on the haze and smoke filters. Unfortunately, due to the power, the capacitors in the trigger group must be quite powerful, but compact for portability. The trade off with this is a 20 second recharge time on the firing mechanism.
Prax Arms Model AFD-43 "Sniper" Blaster Rifle
The Prax Arms Model AFD-43 "Sniper" Blaster Rifle is a unique model of blaster rifle. The one feature that makes it unique is the way gas is compressed through a manually-controlled pumping system. Even though pumping the gas helps increase the rifle's damaging power and range, the requirement reduces its rate of fire to one shot every 5-7 seconds on average and doubles the amount of power pack energy used per shot.
The pumping action slowly increases the amount of damage for each shot. At the same time, each action used to pump increases the range increment by 2 meters to a maximum of 40 meters. Three attack actions is the maximum amount of time that can be spent pumping; any more will cause the rifle to explode. Once two actions are spent pumping, the amount of energy used for the shot is doubled.
The "Sniper" is 1.1 meters in length and comes with a fixed stock and mounting for a scope. The power pack, normally able to provide energy for 15 shots, is housed in front of the trigger guard. Accessories available for the "Sniper" from Prax are a bipod and a special sight, both of which are available for 250 credits each. Use of the bipod grants the wielder a bonus of +2 to hit. The sight zooms in on the target and increases accuracy (raise the range increment by 2 meters) when it used for one round to help aim.
SoroSuub EZ-Snap 48sR Sniper Blaster Rifle
Designed with sales to the Empire in mind, the SoroSuub EZ-Snap 48sR Sniper Blaster Rifle is a very high quality rifle with an exceptional level of inherent accuracy. Using a ground breaking ion sheath for increased bolt cohesion, the 48sR has a range and power on target superior to that of most blasters. The ion sheath creates the unexpected bonus of marginally improving the blaster's performance against ray shielding.
The 48sR also utilizes an active targeting system to further improve each shot's accuracy (+4 to hit when aiming). Because it is an active system, it can be easily detected by most passive light enhancement and sensor systems.
That sounds like a crew served weapon. If so it would belong to the Commandos. It really wouldn't be our domain.
Amana wrote:
I was actually just reading this and hoped there was more. I'm hoping that some more rifleman weaponry will be added where we have to be supported by someone in order to use them.
Waste93 wrote:
That sounds like a crew served weapon. If so it would belong to the Commandos. It really wouldn't be our domain.
Amana wrote:
I was actually just reading this and hoped there was more. I'm hoping that some more rifleman weaponry will be added where we have to be supported by someone in order to use them.
Crew server weapons are a major purposal of the commandoes, they suggest that the crew should be them and the Squad Leaders, both getting certs for the E-Web but one side gets the specials, the other speed and accuracy and when together they get both + a defensive bonus ^_^ I loved the idea as a SL and I hope they implement it!