I was watching another flare-up of debates/flames on rifle and even pistol bore size, and saw an interesting link. Here is a link to a site that has...
Here is a video on cars powered by compressed air: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmqpGZv0YT4&mode=related&search= Note that in VDS compressed air in the power...
... Anything that causes it to dump all its energy in the target is likely to work. In a perfect world (if you like killing), you need some sort of bullet...
... One additional. Whatever the material is, it should be transparent to X rays and, if possible, visually transparent as well ... not only is it a bugger...
... damage. It seems ... Anything that causes it to dump all its energy in the target is likely to work. In a perfect world (if you like killing), you need...
... Actually, I would imagine the "rules of war" (such as they are) prohibit things like that which are deliberately hard to detect/extract. Fragments are one...
... "Fully" Jacketed "Target Cutters" in .45 do a pretty good job... into water, they mushroom like mad; into wood, they cut a plug .4" in diameter, leaving a...
... Hague IV (1907) prohibits ... "To employ arms, projectiles, or material calculated to cause unnecessary suffering" Which is about as vague as you can get. ...
... After thinking about it, I am going to suggest that simply expanding or disintegrating is not necessarily optimal. It kind of goes back to how DV is...
For those who might be looking for inspiration for a location idea for a science fiction setting, here are two videos on the idea of a "solar tower": ...
Another competitor idea is more along the lines of a tornado idea. http://pesn.com/2005/12/14/9600210_Atmosphere_Vortex_Engine/ There have been comments by...
Here is another thought idea for an extension of the idea that could lead to possible scenarios. One possibility that might make it possible to generate power...
Got this from Steven Marsh at Pyramid Magazine (stevenmarsh@...): begin Pyramid Magazine is running a special "theme" issue for (hopefully) the week of...
I need suggestions for pirate weapons in CORPS (or 3G3) terms. I've had a devil of a time finding info on them. Blade length is usually available but handle...
... Remember that not all will be flint-lock. There were still some wheel- and matchlock weapons around even into 1880s. Use the same stats, but decrease the...
... CORPS doesn't normally have a reliability number (though rules might be in CORPS Timelords, a product I have bought but haven't read yet). Taking Greg's...
... There is mention that "the +2 modifier" does the reliability work, in More Guns! Which modifier? I'm going blind trying to figure this out. (I'm sure the...
... There is mention that "the +2 modifier" does the reliability work, in More Guns! Which modifier? I'm going blind trying to figure this out. (I'm sure the...
... Just re-skimmed the rules. No direct mention in CORPS that I was able to locate with just a couple minutes' work. 3G3, though, page 19 has the Malfuntion...
For those who care, a PDF for the pirate CORPS (and it's a work in progress) is online at http://geocities.com/jhmcmullen/corps/pirate_corps_gm.pdf It isn't...
Old threads for background: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/corps-players/message/1850 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/corps-players/message/1915 ...
While the final design is a practical weapon, it is definitely more of an assassination weapon than a normal sidearm. The relatively low DV is offset by the...
Typos noted below ... "Chance" not "Change". Other parts of the design does not deviate from keeping reliability at maximum. ... IA: +1. ... This should be...
I noticed that the receiver mass was calculated wrong, which in turn affected downstream calculations. Therefore, I have copied and pasted the corrected...
... I initially did try to see what the maximum possible DV could be obtained for TL 12 with a solid RC 2/2. It came out to 30, which is still short of the 38...
Reference to the other TL 12 pistol design: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/corps-players/message/1938 This is a design for a TL 12 RC 1/1 "Snub-nosed"...
Does BTRC still exist? I got a bounce when I emailed them earlier at btrc@.... What I was looking for was that I vaguely remembered that in the 90s CORPS...
I'll let Greg speak for BTRC (which is still around, happily churning out EABA products...:-) ), but you can still get the background material for the original...
Try going to http://www.btrc.net/, you can probably contact Greg from there. CORPS is in its second edition, and is now a Multiversal system. It's no longer...
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Apr 19, 2007 9:02 pm
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Yep, as others have mentioned, the conspiracy background for CORPS is now on rent to PIG, which is for some reason is now Precis Intermedia Games instead of...
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