Shark_Force wrote:well, the combat example in the section explaining SDC vs MDC heavily implies it (although the math is a little screwy, with 30 SMGs only hitting for about 300 SDC... i guess that maybe works if the 30 bandits with SMGs were only firing single bullets).
Let's look at it.
30 rebel bandits with SDC weapons, "mostly M-16 assault rifles and sub-machineguns."
"The two soldiers in dead boy armor are caught in a hail of bullets. Perhaps as many as 50 rounds hit for a combined amount of SDC damage of about 300..."
You have 30 people shooting, and 50 rounds hitting. So at least some of them are firing bursts.
But it doesn't mean that anybody is firing full auto.
With 15 of the people firing 3-round bursts, that's 30 shots hitting right there.
The others might be using anything from pistols to shotguns, but it doesn't matter because they're using single-shots, and have zero chance at inflicting 100+ SDC per shot (which, I think, is the point of the section).
The most powerful SMG in the main book is a Mac-10, which does 4d6 SDC per round, which is the same damage as an M-16.
So let's just assume that's what the "most" have.
A single shot only does 24 SDC maximum.
A short burst only does 48 SDC maximum.
A long burst does up to 120 SDC, but we don't know if anybody is firing a long burst. Also, that's the maximum. The average damage would be 70 SDC or so (check my math- I'm still sleepy). So it's perfectly possible that of the people who had M-16s or SMGs, if any fired long bursts, they still didn't inflict 100+ SDC.
Firing an entire magazine uses 2 attacks, and therefore could be debated to count as more than one attack. The rules are unclear about that (as they are about many things). In any case, since all the firing in the scenario is done after a single attack round, it's pretty clear that none of the bandits were doing this.
"Typically, only a mega-damage weapon can harm a
M.D.C. structure. S.D.C. missiles and explosives that can inflict over 100 S.D.C. points of damage do inflict the equivalent of mega-damage."
the explosives cover your situation, KC, although i don't personally think that was how it was intended (i suspect it was referring to large, individual blasts, though i can't say i have any actual *proof* of that). but it wouldn't cover a regular burst, since there is no exception made there.
I don't think that it mattered whether an attack was a burst or not originally.
Explosives are stated to be an exception, and the rule is that it doesn't matter if an attack inflicts more than 100 SDC- it still can't hurt MDC if it's an SDC attack.
then again, technically no exception is made for regular SDC attacks that deal more than 100 damage in a single shot either, such as simply dropping an extremely large, heavy object from a significant height.
Right.