 Bullet/Shell Firing WeaponsBullet/Shell firing weapons fire a projectile from a casing, normally using a small explosive between the projectile and the casing. To represent the large variety of weapons avaliable in the galaxy, this game allows you to design your own weapons. With bullet/shell firing weapons, this is probably one of the more complex weapon designing methods, but the end result is worth it, a weapon of your own liking. Just follow the rules that follow. Step One: Choose a Calibre and Gun Size You need to choose the size of your gun (either auxillary, pistol, rifle, heavy or artillary) and the calibre size (this is the diameter of the bullet/shell that the weapon fires). A calibre of 20mm or less is considered a bullet, a calibre of 25mm and above is a shell. The table below shows the basic cost for your choices. A '-' indicates that the calibre is not avaliable for that size weapon.
Step Two: Choose Magazine Size Most Weapons can have a magazine attached to them that allows them to carry and automatically reload bullets/shells. You now need to determine the size of the magazine on your weapon. The maximum size you can have depends upon again the size of the gun and the calibre, as shown in the following table in a moment. For each bullet/shell your weapon can hold after the first, the base cost increases. What it increases by depends on the size of your weapon: Auxillary: +1 credit per bullet
Step Three: Choose Weapon Modes At the moment, you weapon has only one mode of firing, called single shot. What this means is that once a single shot has been fired, you need to rearm the weapon (otherwise dodgely known as cocking the weapon) before you can fire again. In the Dark Thaum, such a slow way of firing could prove fatal, so you may wish to purchase so additional modes for your weapon. If you buy more than one mode, it means that your weapon is capable of firing in more than one mode and will have a selector switch to flick between the different modes. Below is a list of modes and the cost it adds to your base cost of your gun depending on the size of the weapon. It is then followed by a description of what each mode does and any restrictions:
Description: This mode basically means that your weapon automatically reloads itself after each shot, saving you from having to cock the weapon every time. It will give you a rate of fire of around about one bullet/shell per second. Restrictions: The weapon must have a magazine of at least 2 or more bullets/shells.
Description: This enables the weapon to reel of quick firing salvo's of around three bullets at a time before it needs to reload itself properly. The upside is the weapon fires off around three shots per second, the down side is that shots are fired in rounds of three so you could end up wasting ammunition is one is not careful. Restrictions: The weapon must have a magazine capacity of at least 3 or more bullets/shells.
Description: The weapon is capable of firing off a large number of rounds in a short space of time just by holding the trigger down, usually somewhere between 4-12 rounds per second. This however has the potential to waste more ammunition then Burst Fire does. Restrictions: The weapon must have a minimum magazine capacity of at least 10 bullets/shells.
Description: This is much more rapid version of the Automatic mode and though the potential is to waste once again even more ammunition, many consider the pay off from having a rate of fire around 15-30 rounds per second well worth it. Restrictions: The weapon must have a minimum magazine capacity of at least 20 bullet/shells.
Description: The ultimate in automatic fire. The weapon comprises off a number of barrels that rotate that assist in increasing the rate of fire of the weapon dramatically. Very hungry on ammunition, a gatling fire weapon will fire of between 40-100 rounds per second. Restrictions: The weapon must have a minimum magazine capacity of at least 50 or more bullets/shells.
Description: Not a mode as such, but a part of the gun that allows the weapon to recieve ammunition via a chain feed instead of from it's magazine (see accessories for different types of chain feeds). A weapon which can be chain fed can also have any off the modes mentioned above, ignoring any restrictions mentioned for the above modes. Restrictions: Auxillary weapons are too small to have chain feeds. Step Four: Work out avaliability Now you need to work out how common the weapon you have designed is to get hold off. This is fairly simple. Have a look at what you weapon has and then follow the following rules to see which catogry it falls in: Common Weapons: Any weapon which is either auxillary, pistol or rifle in size, has a calibre of 12.5mm or less and isn't chain fed, gatling or automatic. Super Rare Weapons: All artillary is considered super rare. Also, any rifle with a calibre of 25mm is also classed as being super rare. Rare Weapons: Any weapon that doesn't fit into the above two availabilities. Step Five: Abbreviate your weapon
Now that you have designed your weapon, it may help if you can abbreviate it to help in writing it down. This is fairly simple once again. First give your weapon a name and then put in brackets after it's details, each field seperated by a forward slash. The order should size, calibre, magazine size, modes, cost and availability. Take the following example: This tells us the weapon is of pistol size, fires 10mm bullets and can hold a magzine of 10 bullets at a time. It is capable of Semi-Automatic and Burst Fire modes, it costs 93 credits and it's availability is common. And that's it. Sit back and enjoy your new gun... well almost, now you are going need ammunition. Bullets and ShellsThough there are many different sizes of bullets, there are also many different types of bullets/shells as well. When buying ammunition, you need to not only state how many you are buying and off what calibre, but also what type you wish to use. For most purposes, standard bullets and shells should do the trick, but some circumstances may require that special type of bullet. The first step is to work out the base cost of your individual bullet from the table given below. This is the cost of a normal standard bullet/shell of that calibre and if that is all you require, then you need not go any further. However, below the table is listed a number of special types of bullets which are described as follows: The types name A quick final note. All shells (i.e. 25mm calibre and above) are considered to be Super Rare regardless of type while all bullets of 15mm to 20mm are considered to be rare unless their type indicates that they are super rare.
Armour Piercing High Explosive Fragmentation Laser Piercing Injection Dry Ice Ghost Shrieker Shredder EM Lash Flame Trail Camera Tracer Spent Uranium Grenade Shell Ion Charged Shell High Yield Warhead Shell Dimensional Disruptive ShotgunsShotguns are simple barrel like devices. Like bullet/shell firing weapons, you can design your own shotguns, however, the proceedure is much simpler. Step One: Choose the number of barrels Using the table below, choose how many barrels your shotgun has to find out what the base cost is:
Step Two: Choose Modifications A shotgun will hold as many cartridges as it has barrels at anyone time and these can all be fired together or singular. A shot gun is also considered at this stage to be single shot (needs to be cocked between shots) and is off Rifle size. You may now choose a number of modifications to add to the weapon from the list below, adding the cost shown to the weapon. Shotgun Magazine (SM): Auto Reload (AR): Sawn Off (SO): Step Three: Work out Availability Once again, this is relatively simple to work out. If the gun has one or two barrels, it counts as a common weapon. If it has three or more barrels it is a rare weapon. Step Four: Abbreviate the weapon To abbreviate the weapon into a description that is easy to use when talking about the gun, give it a name and then put in brackets the following information in this order: Number of Barrels, Modifications (for the Shotgun Magazine, don't forget to include the number of cartridges it holds), cost and availability. Here's an example already worked out for you. Wrecker (2/SM6,SO/66/c) From this, we can tell that the shot gun called a wrecker has two barrels, has a magazine holding 6 cartridges, is sawn off, costs 66 credits to purchase and is a common weapon. Shotgun CartridgesThere are three types of Shotgun cartridges avaliable for the shotgun user to purchase: Standard Cartridges Salt Cartridges Flame Cartridges |
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