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Assault Cannon vs Grenades?

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MadBear

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« on: <12-20-14/0330:18> »
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Assault Cannons and Grenade Launchers are completely different, ACs do not fire grenades, they fire AC rounds. My question is, do AC rounds have an Area of Affect like grenades? Do they scatter? Or, are they fired like any other weapon, you roll with a Contested AGL+Heavy vs REA+INT, and that lovely 16P damage is staged up by net hits?
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« Reply #1 on: <12-20-14/0355:43> »
Assault cannons are fired as normal guns. They just have a huge damage code. No AOE, just concentrated damage.
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« Reply #2 on: <12-20-14/0448:21> »
I sure hope, there will be diffrent ammos for them soon.
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« Reply #3 on: <12-20-14/0931:54> »
IIRC in previous editions, there has never been any specialized rounds for the assault cannon. That's why the scariest weapon out there is an AC with an underslung grenade launcher. Course it takes a beefy troll to use it, but still...
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« Reply #4 on: <12-20-14/1014:16> »
There were AV rounds for them in SR4, I think. -1/-3 as AP. And like others said, there's no Blast effect for Assault Cannons.
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