That's right more late night meanders from your truly...Do you think it would be more accurate to call
APDS rounds (-4AP) Armor Piercing Frangibles, since armor piercing rounds would have a smaller damage profile, like -2p -4AP? Armor piercing rounds don't have cavitation as the highest priority in the design process, that's where AP Frangibles and the like came from. If APF rounds were added in they would probably be ~ +2P -2AP based on how APDS currently read...
Do you think it would be more accurate to call SR
Flechette rounds (+2P +5AP) Beehive rounds or shot? IRL, Flechette rounds could more accurately be put into the APFSDS category (Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot - more accurate APDS), or vice versa. Flechette rounds are innately armor piecing, but are commonly mixed up with beehive rounds which came about from vietnam soldiers snipping the heads off nails and making anti-personnel shotgun and 40mm rounds. There are rounds that have emerged a few years back that are hybrid beehive/flechette that are being marketed as flechette rounds, which are closer to what's depicted in SR. So far the only weapon I know of that still fires real flechette are tanks (ADFSDS) and the
Steyr ACR. You would think
Armor-Piercing Flechettes (+2P) would be a true flechette, but in fact it falls more in line with the hybrid rounds that I mentioned before. AP Flechettes make the normal flechette sound like a frangible that breaks into slivers instead of slag.
Frangible Rounds (+2AP) are more effective than what a shotgun uses (flechette)? I'm confused doesn't a frangible round shatter on impact, even on flesh?
Hollow Point Rounds (+1P +2AP) and frangibles are basically the same round with roughly the same cavitation, with Hp's having better penetration, with buckshot having even greater penetration (.30 cal x8) with smaller individual cavitations, but many more of them.
Honestly what's the difference between
AV Rounds (-4/-6AP) and
Anti-Tank Rounds (-6AP), one is less effective against personal armor? Shouldn't AT Rounds have a 'caliber' limit, meaning can only be used in sniper rifles, MG's, and maybe assault cannons (to fit with the fluff text)?
Is the difference between
Explosive Rounds (+1P) and
EX Explosive Rounds (+1P -1AP) a single-stage versus a two-stage explosive?
Aren't
Stick-n-Shock (6Se -halfAP) and
Taser Dart (6/8Se -halfAP) the same round, separated by development in tech, newer vs older (same argument as cased/caseless ammo)?
Aren't
Gel Rounds (+1S +2AP) just
Capsule Rounds (S +2AP) with a knockdown filling?
Hi-C Plastic Rounds (norm/-1P) seem like something you would be making in the airport bathroom...
What's the Signal rating of
Tracker Rounds? Couldn't
RFID Rounds easily be modded into Tracker rounds? That would be the only purpose I would see in getting RFID rounds...
Do
Sensor Rounds (+halfP +6AP) have a Signal rating or is it purely LoS with the firearm? What kind of mods/software do you have to add to the weapon to be able to read the output from the round? I'm guess you would have to add some select sound filter to be able to interpret noise data...
Suppression Rounds (+1AP) would also have less range if "the energy used to make all this noise takes away from the rounds’ impact on a target (War!, Pg 156)." I understand the whole whistler concept of the round, but how does it make more noise on impact? Does it shatter?
Silver bullets (+2AP) could have been designed better. As they stand that's how someone who hasn't made rounds before would jumble them together. They could be partially-jacketed, FMJ, partial cored, or completely cored and that's only just getting started with multi-metal rounds.
High-Power Rounds (+2P -1AP) are reasonably cool, but they seem like there should be limits on what can actually do the chambering, because to make some weapons magnum IRL can cost way more than the weapon itself (new frame, barrel, springs, etc). Maybe a sliding scale where anything under the size of a rifle costs more slots and more mula.
Subsonic Ammo (+2AP) seems like it should be an option to put on a type of round, like Subsonic Hi-C Plastic Rounds (very limited range and undetectable rounds) or Subsonic Gel Rounds (quiet splatter balls)...
