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Originally Posted by BigDon
I also have a three foot tall stack of Shadowrun source books.
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I spent a good chunk of my youth poring over Shadowrun source books and devouring the novels I'd check out from the local library. Sadly, none of my friends were interested in playing the game. Since you dig MegaMek so much, I thought you might be interested to know that there was a very good Sega Genesis Shadowrun game:
Home of the Underdogs page
You will need a Sega Genesis emulator to play this; PM me if you're interested.
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Originally Posted by BigDon
Take an orc long bow. Launchs a 3.5 foot long solid iron arrow 300 yards. Think of a piece of rebar flung that far. Awesome penetrating power. Not done through brute force alone. The only better smiths than the orcs are the dwarves. And that says alot. Their smiths enchant everything they make as a matter of course. Its just that nothing they make is pretty or balanced to a human's viewpoint. You may have noticed its difficult if not impossible to use recovered orcish hand weapons well. That's why.
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How much would a 3.5 foot solid iron arrow weigh? And how fast would such an arrow be launched from said Orc long bow? I'd like to do a quick-n-dirty comparison with bullets fired from conventional firearms, based on good ol' KE = 0.5 * m * v ^2.