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Railgun ammo costs
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:07 pm
by Mouser13
Just wondering if anyone has any idea on cost for standard rail gun ammo.
Also costs for silver or wood would be nice they don't seem to be in vampire kingdoms book.
Re: Railgun ammo costs
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:30 pm
by exiled_snow
considering a railgun fires the round at very high velocity... some at supersonic speeds.. i dont think pure silver rounds would work. if u used a solid slug with a jacket of a firmer metal maybe... and id bet wood would just burst into flame unless somehow enchanted to not
Re: Railgun ammo costs
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:53 pm
by Dustin Fireblade
Mouser13 wrote:Just wondering if anyone has any idea on cost for standard rail gun ammo.
Also costs for silver or wood would be nice they don't seem to be in vampire kingdoms book.
RUE pg 258-259 has "CS Ammunition" and lists the costs for rail gun ammo as 1 credit per 2 rounds and then GB Boom Gun ammo as 3 credits per round.
Re: Railgun ammo costs
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:08 am
by Starmage21
Yep. Railgun ammo should be the cheapest ammo on the market. You literally have to do nothing but cast or stamp the round and your done.
Re: Railgun ammo costs
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:50 am
by Balabanto
For the record, the reason why railgun rounds are cheap is this:
All you're really doing is firing a huge mass of ball bearings at something. Ball bearings are pretty much available everywhere. Otherwise, most wheeled vehicles in the world wouldn't actually move. And the thing about the wood rounds is that what you actually need is a desintegrating metal jacket around the bullet that leaves the wood core behind on impact. That's a little harder to do. Metal on the inside/wood on the outside and your vegetable matter will disintegrate at those velocities.
Re: Railgun ammo costs
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:36 pm
by Qev
If it's actually a railgun, then what the ammunition is made out of doesn't really matter, assuming whatever it is can survive the acceleration and passage through the atmosphere, of course. Each round would need to be housed in its own conductive armature, though, as that's what does all the hard work. The primary cost in manufacturing custom rounds would be getting whatever material you're using into the correct shape... plus any modifications required to strengthen typically weak materials. I imagine the armature material and design is pretty standardized.