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ORIGINAL: BlueTemplar But indeed, using this logic, shouldn't High Velocity Guns Cannons be a pre-requisite to Carbines ? But most important : Realism is good to have, but what about the gameplay ? Oh, in case you'd like to have your own (gauss/coil)gun : https://arcflashlabs.com/_accelerators/fully-assembled-guns/# Oh, also, I had no idea that "plasma guns" even existed IRL, or that you could have a railgun where the rails and/or the projectile aren't solid, but they do and they're one an the same ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARAUDER quote:
The ability to keep a ball of high-temperature gas together and project it at high speed opens up interesting possibilities for weapons. One of these was studied under a project called MARAUDER in 1993 at the USAF’s Phillips Laboratory8. Marauder stands for Magnetically Accelerated Ring to Achieve Ultra-high Directed Energy and Radiation – surely a prize-winning acronym. Utilising the awesome Shiva Star power system, experiments spat out toroids (donut-shaped rings) of plasma9. Other experiments have involved containing toroids (in strong magnetic fields) to produce hot nuclear fusion, but the aim of Marauder was to project a minute plasma toroid at high velocity. As with lightning, the tiny, hot core of the toroid would be surrounded by a glowing ball of excited air. On striking a solid target, the toroids produced “extreme mechanical and thermal shock” and a pulse of electromagnetic radiation. Oh, and one thing that was bugging me : For "Charged Gauss Small Arms" the +50% velocity improvement says to be coming from "using a magnetic acceleration system". But what were then the "non-charged" "Gauss Small Arms" using ?? (As a reminder, "Gauss" comes from Gauss's two laws about electric flux and magnetic flux.) IIRC, as far as "magnetically accelerating a projectile" goes, Gauss gun and Railgun are opposing options. I think Gauss Guns were easier, but had a much lower maximum performance. Railguns are harder, but if you make them they are that much more powerfull. So maybe the charged Gauss is using some part Rail?
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