Rifleman Archive
Thread: Request for 2 New Rifle Types Dev's Attention Please
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.
It has the following stats:
- Night Vision & Infrared Scope
- Hevy Armor Piercing
- 160m Range
- Damage: Energy
- 95% Accuracy
- Fire-delay 20 seconds (ouch.. but for the distance, I could live with this)
- weight 15 kg
- Stun
- unsure on damage as would be converting over from SWRPG, but would estimate a high output
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.
- Night Vision & Infrared Scope
- Hevy Armor Piercing
- 128m Range
- Damage: Energy or Ion
- 95% Accuracy
- Fire-delay 9 seconds
- weight 4.3 kg
- unsure on damage as would be converting from SWRPG, but would estimate a high output
As new weapons are being discussed by the Dev's for future development, I think these would be welcome additions. And since they are talking about doing Novice through Master weapons, I think these would be perfect for Masters.