Re: (TFT) Reality vs. Game Mechanics

[Joey Beutel <mejobo@comcast.net>]

Hypothesized weaponized Lasers don't really  punch through and  
cauterize. I'm not an expert on the subject, but I've heard from  
enough experts to say with some confidence that they would cause  
damage more or less identical to that of a kinetic weapon, like a  
bullet. The idea is that you use a 'pulsed' laser, not a continuos  
beam, so that the first pulse creates a small steam explosion upon  
hitting that puts a little crater into a person, then the next pulse  
comes and puts a crater at the bottom of that crater, and so on. Given  
that pulses just need to be slow enough to let the steam dissipate  a  
bit (which happens very, very quickly), the effect is that you  
basically blow a hole through the person. The wound doesn't cauterize  
cause it's not doing damage through heat, its doing damage  
mechanically. The wounds will be messy, deadly, and possibly a bit  
gorier than a bullet, as the momentum won't push all the blood in one  
direction- it'll just fly everywhere.
On Oct 10, 2011, at 11:55 AM, <dwtulloh61@cox.net> wrote:

> Actually,
>
> I think I recall reading somewhere that really high speed missile  
> weapons
> ( bullets, arrows ) can actually do LESS damage than their low speed
> counterparts - they essentially punch a hole through the body as  
> opposed
> to breaking up, spalling, etc.
>
> This is a particular problem where lethal lasers are considered -  
> since
> they both punch through and cauterize at the same time, they can do  
> less
> damage if they happen to hit in a non-critical location.
>
> Can anyone confirm?
>
> ---- Margaret Tapley <barnswallow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > There's a similar phenomenon at work in the bow section of the  
> > weapons
> > table. A longbow doesn't necessarily do more damage than a horse bow.
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