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by BigLEE
Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:49 am
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: Using the enemy as cover
Replies: 3
Views: 3695

Using the enemy as cover

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2009/01/literal-human-shield.html Transcript from an Israeli news show, while showing reconnaissance video of a firefight: # Here are the two terrorists,circled in red, hiding behind bushes # The soldiers, circled in blue, approach ... # without knowing they're so c...
by BigLEE
Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:07 pm
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: Your PCs load out
Replies: 48
Views: 50667

Re: Your PCs load out

Found this over on lightfighter.net. Not so useful for Vietnam-era, but might offer some good ideas fora modern compaign: "Packing for War: a gear list for deployment to SW Asia Let me start by saying that this is a list of what I took, what I wish I had taken, and what I would have taken had I...
by BigLEE
Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:15 am
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: Favorite Pistol
Replies: 55
Views: 50427

Re: Favorite Pistol

#1 Well I'm gonna let this go. I think suffic (sp?) to say we both have different opinions on this. Neither of which is gonna change. Read the article at http://www.rkba.org/research/fackler/wrong.html . I stopped paying attantion to gunrag writer's opinions about bullet effectiveness years ago.
by BigLEE
Sat May 10, 2008 11:06 am
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: Favorite Pistol
Replies: 55
Views: 50427

Re: Favorite Pistol

On the other hand, it has a hell of a lot of moving parts compared to many other semi-autos, and that means more things to go wrong. Add to that a scenario where parts are at a premium or such (TEOTWAWKI or the like) and it becomes more of an issue. It is also quite hefty to lug around (eight hours...
by BigLEE
Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:01 pm
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: Black Rifle question
Replies: 6
Views: 6138

Rock River only sells 1 lower though. I'm still digging as to a contact that I can email them directly. Could a larger 308 receiver also handle larger loads such as a 300 mag, 338, or 375? Hrm... They have a forum over at ar15.com, m Or call them at 1-866-980-ROCK. As to the second question, I've h...
by BigLEE
Tue Jan 01, 2008 4:09 pm
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: Black Rifle question
Replies: 6
Views: 6138

The .223, 6.8 & .458 uppers should all work with the same lower as their magazines all have the same outer dimensions, and you can get a 9mm adapter for a AR15 lower. But a .308 magazine will not fit on a standard ar15 lower. You might still be able to mount a .308 upper on a .223 lower, but you...
by BigLEE
Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:47 pm
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: Battlefield Evolution Miniatures Used for Palladium
Replies: 16
Views: 13541

I believe Mongoose has suspended production of miniatures for Battlefield Evolution due to quality control issues. However, I use 1/72 scale models in my Twilight:2000 game. There is a pretty good selection of vehicles available in 1/72 scale, and prices tend to be under $15, and often $10 per kit. ...
by BigLEE
Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:03 pm
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: Favorite Pistol
Replies: 55
Views: 50427

Not sure which hi-cap .45 your talking about, but Para-Ord, STI, & Wilson all widen the grip frames on their .45s to accomodate hi-cap magazines. Para-Ord uses thinner grip panels to try and reduce the thickness, but the difference is still apparent when you handle them. And 20+ round magazines ...
by BigLEE
Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:59 pm
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: Favorite Non-US Rifle
Replies: 41
Views: 60358

CS Jarhead wrote:
CS Jarhead wrote:I'd like to know where you guys are getting trigger time on all these exotics that your choosing as favorites.

SIG 550



I got to shoot a SIG 550 over in Switzerland (also got to shoot a SIG 510.) SIG has just released an Americanized version of the rifle, the SIG 556.
by BigLEE
Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:15 am
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: Favorite Non-US Rifle
Replies: 41
Views: 60358

Bolt Action Swiss K31
Battle Rifle FN FAL
Assault Rifle SIG 550
by BigLEE
Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:02 pm
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: Did all of these actually get released?
Replies: 1
Views: 3522

I have Hearts & Minds, and have seen Sayerat (and still regret not buying.) I beleive HALO came out, but never saw any of the other titles.

L.E.E.
by BigLEE
Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:22 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Flight and Big Guns
Replies: 13
Views: 2106

Real life rail guns do not have regular recoil since the round is pulled and pushed down the rails. They make a heck of a racket though. Lasers do not have recoil either. Though IMO plasma ejectors and ion weapons would have some recoil but not too much. A ‘borg or PA would not even notice it. The ...
by BigLEE
Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:12 pm
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: Favorite Pistol
Replies: 55
Views: 50427

SIG P229 in .357SIG.
by BigLEE
Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:45 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Lemuria and Psyscape
Replies: 11
Views: 949

Steeler49er wrote:I love Lemuria in concept but the place has to be given quite some work as Atlantis may very well have existed in real life. It's even well described by Homer,


Heh, there's a funny bit of irony in the claim that Atlantis might be real on the basis of Homer's writings.
by BigLEE
Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:01 pm
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: Favorite Rifle
Replies: 74
Views: 62711

Bolt gun - Swiss K31 Funny that you mention the K31 just now. I'm purchasing a couple of 'em tonight. I've heard nothing but great things about them... well, except for the fact that you're stuck using the 7.5 Swiss round instead of the more common .308. Still, I can't wait to get mine! Have you ac...
by BigLEE
Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:49 pm
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: Favorite Rifle
Replies: 74
Views: 62711

Bolt gun - Swiss K31
Battle Rifle - FAL
AR - Swiss Stgw.90 (aka SIG 550)
by BigLEE
Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:28 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Kevin's UNIQUE contribution to the RPG World was...???
Replies: 38
Views: 3119

I'm not sure if KS was the absolute first to accomplish this, but in terms of a wide-selling RPG he might have been, and is the ability in a game like Rifts to combine ancient with way-futuristic science fiction, and magic and psionics with high-technology. Depending on the mood of the players, the...
by BigLEE
Fri Jan 20, 2006 12:08 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Kevin's UNIQUE contribution to the RPG World was...???
Replies: 38
Views: 3119

What RPGs before Palladium had active defenses like parry and dodge? I'm not a big RPG history buff, so nothing came to mind. Was Palladium first for something like that? Anyone? No, some 70s vintage games had active defenses. Chivilary & Sorcery and En Guarde, I believe, both used a variety of...
by BigLEE
Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:33 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Kevin's UNIQUE contribution to the RPG World was...???
Replies: 38
Views: 3119

..Cyberpunk. Heroes Unlimited and Ninjas & Superspies both introduced a wide array of Bionics and Cybernetics before CyberPunk was done by anyone else. Take away the super powers and roll the calendar forward a bit and either game fit the bill. -Mike >8] ..Palladium Books; the Apple Computers o...
by BigLEE
Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:34 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Kevin's UNIQUE contribution to the RPG World was...???
Replies: 38
Views: 3119

I don't understand that point very well though. When D&D was around, what stopped anyone from saying "well, let's play it sci fi. Instead of a bow, this is a blaster, and this longsword+1 is a vibro sword" actually there were conversion rules in the DM's guide for gunpowder weapons and basic mo...
by BigLEE
Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:42 am
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: What is Recon?
Replies: 8
Views: 7310

The original rulebook can be downloaded from here, http://www.palladium-megaverse.com/cutt ... lrecon.pdf
by BigLEE
Sat Nov 19, 2005 10:50 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Rifts Weapons Recoil (was Laser Weapon Recoil)
Replies: 113
Views: 10483

Daytrippr wrote:Rifts doesnt break the rules of physics. It jsut bends them.....


Actually, it runs them through a cross-cut shredder, dumps them in a blast furnace, then scatters the ashes in the jet stream to allow them to be scattered through the world.

Kinda like their release schedules.
by BigLEE
Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:18 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Irrelivent Brain Bender: Mach in space
Replies: 59
Views: 4203

In any case, I prefer a "G" based system for STL speeds. That doesn't quite jive... "G" is a measure of acceleration, 9.8 meters per second per second Speed is just meters per second. So, you need a different unit of measurement for speed/velocity. Mach works well. You could just, for space's sake,...
by BigLEE
Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:53 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Rifts Weapons Recoil (was Laser Weapon Recoil)
Replies: 113
Views: 10483

I don't recall any recoil from any flashlight I've ever used. I should hope not! Geez... photons have momentum, but not that much... Of course, not too many flashlights are going to deliver 650000 kJ of energy to a target in a fraction of a second, like this laser does. That's one hell of a lot of ...
by BigLEE
Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:07 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Irrelivent Brain Bender: Mach in space
Replies: 59
Views: 4203

Oh my there's actually posts. Here is another question then if Mach at sea level is 700 some odd miles per hour than how fast is mach with a supercavicating aquafighter? Sound moves a lot faster underwater. The speed of sound in sea water is around 3425 mph although depth and various other factors ...
by BigLEE
Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:00 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Irrelivent Brain Bender: Mach in space
Replies: 59
Views: 4203

Oh my there's actually posts. Here is another question then if Mach at sea level is 700 some odd miles per hour than how fast is mach with a supercavicating aquafighter? Sound moves a lot faster underwater. The speed of sound in sea water is around 3425 mph although depth and various other factors ...
by BigLEE
Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:51 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Irrelivent Brain Bender: Mach in space
Replies: 59
Views: 4203

The aswers to your questions appear to be (in no particular order): No. Nobody at PB cares. Yes. Mach measurements in space are silly AND extremly slow for how they are used. No. You shouldn't really be using Mach in space and if you are it should be a standard number. In which case you might as we...
by BigLEE
Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:56 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Rifts Weapons Recoil (was Laser Weapon Recoil)
Replies: 113
Views: 10483

cornholioprime wrote:So then doesn't it seem that by Reverse Logic that a Man-Portable Laser, even one that delivers a MegaDamage Energy Output, would have virtually NO recoil of any kind, at least none that would affect the Soldier(s) involved??


See above.
by BigLEE
Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:53 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Rifts Weapons Recoil (was Laser Weapon Recoil)
Replies: 113
Views: 10483

ALL energy weapons (including lasers) have no recoil. the reason why contemporary guns , or all guns for that matter, have recoil is the chemical propelant used to launch the amunition out of the gun. It is just a simple application of Newton's Laws of Motion; the ammo is pushed foward, the gun is ...
by BigLEE
Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:41 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Rifts Weapons Recoil (was Laser Weapon Recoil)
Replies: 113
Views: 10483

By the way, folks, I'm NOT trying to make an Argument of any kind here, but I simply don't remember Photon Streams causing recoil in a Laser Weapon in the real world. All you need do is cite me an Internet Article where this is a problem and I'll amend my opinion on the matter, relevant of course t...
by BigLEE
Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:10 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Rifts Weapons Recoil (was Laser Weapon Recoil)
Replies: 113
Views: 10483

ALL energy weapons (including lasers) have no recoil. the reason why contemporary guns , or all guns for that matter, have recoil is the chemical propelant used to launch the amunition out of the gun. It is just a simple application of Newton's Laws of Motion; the ammo is pushed foward, the gun is ...
by BigLEE
Sat Aug 20, 2005 3:36 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Rifts Weapons Recoil (was Laser Weapon Recoil)
Replies: 113
Views: 10483

By the way, folks, I'm NOT trying to make an Argument of any kind here, but I simply don't remember Photon Streams causing recoil in a Laser Weapon in the real world. All you need do is cite me an Internet Article where this is a problem and I'll amend my opinion on the matter, relevant of course t...
by BigLEE
Sat Aug 20, 2005 2:27 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Rifts Weapons Recoil (was Laser Weapon Recoil)
Replies: 113
Views: 10483

And getting back to the original Question, lets do some "simple" Math. What's a billion biliion Joules of Energy (I guess the number would be something like 10 to the 18) times a nearly infinitely small number (the "mass" of the Photons). I don't have a Scientific Calculator at the ready, but I'd h...
by BigLEE
Sat Aug 20, 2005 1:16 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Rifts Weapons Recoil (was Laser Weapon Recoil)
Replies: 113
Views: 10483

Re: Laser Weapon Recoil (aka I'm bored) :D

And The Article that you linked me to essentially agrees with me. According to the Article, Photons dont have a "Rest State;" and even in motion, are still virtually massless. That very small Mass has a different value, according to your Article, dependng on Wavelength, but is still considered to b...
by BigLEE
Sat Aug 20, 2005 11:22 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Rifts Weapons Recoil (was Laser Weapon Recoil)
Replies: 113
Views: 10483

Re: Laser Weapon Recoil (aka I'm bored) :D

Just for fun, I thought I'd do a completely off-hand calculation of what the recoil might be for an MDC-class laser weapon. I'm assuming a 1D6MD laser pistol can vaporize a 10cm x 10cm x 10cm block of iron completely in one shot. Does that seem reasonable? I'm also assuming that Rifts laser weapons...
by BigLEE
Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:11 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: this came up yet again in our game
Replies: 34
Views: 2754

You guys should know that a laser is amplified through an ocsillator before or after the medium that it is focused through, in which any kinetic force being a applied would be for the most part cancelled out between apposing ocsillating ends of the ocsillator. Thus even a super powerful laser would...
by BigLEE
Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:48 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: this came up yet again in our game
Replies: 34
Views: 2754

Mind providing a link? Both of those technologies are still different then laser rifles, pistols etc. Again, the science underlying the laser aspect of the weapon system is well know, and various laser weapons exist in prototype stage. Another example m What is not know is how to make a pratical po...
by BigLEE
Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:29 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: this came up yet again in our game
Replies: 34
Views: 2754

Josh Sinsapaugh wrote:
The science behind lasers? Well Understood.

The science (?) behind laser weapons? Science Fiction.


:frust: Nonsense. The military has been testing weapon systems for years.
by BigLEE
Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:20 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: this came up yet again in our game
Replies: 34
Views: 2754

However, if the energy could be stored so, we can precisely calculate the amount of recoil energy generated by the laser beam . . . even if those of us here, including me, do not possess the math to do it. Huh? Drakenred already did the math. It's basically just a couple of High School level equati...
by BigLEE
Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:16 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: this came up yet again in our game
Replies: 34
Views: 2754

Man portable lasers that create damaging effects are currently along the lines of science fiction. No amount of speculation, quantum physics, engineering, or mechanical knowledge will make sense of a weapon that is currently beyond our means of understanding . We are doing the equivalent of people ...
by BigLEE
Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:24 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Brainbender: MD vs. Water?
Replies: 44
Views: 4784

I did some estimates. If the plasma weapon (in this case, an NG-E12 from Mercs) has 6 shots from a standard e-clip (which holds an estimated 54,000 watthours of energy) Ditto, How did you estimate the power of the e-clip? 54,000 watt hours = 54 Kilowatt hours. A 1600 watt hairdryer (1.6 kilowatt dr...
by BigLEE
Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:11 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: "Lasers"
Replies: 160
Views: 4121

Zer0 Kay wrote:OK but that is stupid. Then instead of having LIDAR, SONAR and RADAR their all LIDAR? :nh: geez stupid word librals :D


SONAR?

You're lumping light and sound into the same category? :frust:
by BigLEE
Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:57 pm
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: FAQ
Replies: 7
Views: 5631

What are the revisions that were done to Original to make the Revised? Thanks for the answers, by the way! The original Recon, downloadable from the link provided above, was a small (48 page + GM Screen) softcover book, published in 1982 by RPG INC., a small, now defunct, company. They also put out...
by BigLEE
Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:50 am
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: FAQ
Replies: 7
Views: 5631

The original Recon has been referred to as a wargame, as it's lacking in setting information, but it has always been a role-playing game.
by BigLEE
Sun Jul 10, 2005 11:13 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: "Lasers"
Replies: 160
Views: 4121

demos606 wrote:It also explains away the insanity of allowing laser fire to be dodged/parried in the first place.


Umm, light travels much, much faster than sound. The beam would hit before the target hears it.
by BigLEE
Sun Jul 10, 2005 5:25 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: S.A.M.S. weapon concept.
Replies: 69
Views: 7850

Killer Cyborg wrote:The physics of Rifts has rules to it, in the same way that real world physics has rules to it.



Now that's comedy. :lol:
by BigLEE
Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:05 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: "Lasers"
Replies: 160
Views: 4121

Re: "Lasers"

You still haven't said that a laser can't be in a blue-green harmonic that is not visible with the naked eye. An invisible visible color? The color blue-green (somewhere btw 475 & 510 nm) falls within the visual spectrum. The average human eye can see the entire range of colors within the visua...
by BigLEE
Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:52 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Vagabond
Replies: 40
Views: 4989

Sorry to derail the thread, lol, not that I've EVER done that before... Solothurn is one of the Cantons that make up the Swiss Confederation. the Canton is named after it's capital city, which is also called Solothurn. This site may be of some use to you. Believe me when I say that it's one of the ...
by BigLEE
Sat Jun 04, 2005 8:38 pm
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: Given up yet?
Replies: 44
Views: 24756

Titan Games has a VF+ copy for $10.00.

L.E.E.
by BigLEE
Sat Jun 04, 2005 10:53 am
Forum: Recon® & Recon® Modern Combat
Topic: Given up yet?
Replies: 44
Views: 24756

In the meantime you can always try to hunt down the original version of Recon that wasn't put out by Palladium. Myself, I have Revised Recon and Advanced Recon so I wouldn't buy it even if they publish a new one; I liked the original and don't see a need for change. The original version is availabl...

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