Mustering-out Guns

[Timerover51]

"Circuit Judge" by Rossi

https://www.rossiusa.com/

The one I was looking at was the one on the bottom. It is a nice gun for the money.

 

[Condottiere]

Mustering out equipment is generic, though if you have a fleshed out military, it could be specific, or it could an undeclared battlefield souvenir or something won from the quartermaster at a poker game.

The most useful firearm you can buy is a pump action shotgun, the most innocuous would be a single barrel twenty five credite imperiale shotgun with calibre adapters at SolMart.

 

[CaptRet]

The most useful firearm you can buy is a pump action shotgun, the most innocuous would be a single barrel twenty five credite imperiale shotgun with calibre adapters at SolMart.

"Useful firearm you can buy" - and therein lies the rub. It is relatively easy and cheap for a beginning Traveller to buy a shotgun. But mustering-out benefits give the Traveller an opportunity to get his/her hands on an expensive piece of hardware he/she otherwise couldn't readily obtain or buy (even if won't meet law enforcement limits of a particular world, you can always store it in the ship's locker or your quarters against future needs). Under Mongoose Traveller 2d ed, the most expensive and high tech items you can receive mustering out is the ACR or Accelerator Rifle. I would recommend taking one of those, and buying the shotgun.

 

[SanDragon]

Dex of three means it's the most useful firearm you can buy.

 

[flykiller]

what are the most common weapons your characters get on mustering out

corporal o'shea was given five minutes in the armory ....

 

[flykiller]

most advanced weapons you can receive

imtu social standing determines what weapons may be personally owned and utilized.

 

[infojunky]

The quick answer is Snub Pistol. Followed by the Snub SMG.

 

[CaptRet]

imtu social standing determines what weapons may be personally owned and utilized.

That's an interesting concept Flykiller. What's the process you use?

 

[atpollard]

IMTU:
"What weapon would you like and how did you get it?"

(Lasers are popular.)

 

[Condottiere]

Picked it up in a bar.

 

[flykiller]

What's the process you use?

off the top of my head:

ss 0-1: none
ss 2-3: blade
ss 4-5: single shot gunpowder/chemical/torsion weapon
ss 6-7: simple firearm
ss 8-9: complex firearm
etc

similar system applies to pilot, computer, starship ownership, etc.

 

[kilemall]

That's an interesting concept Flykiller. What's the process you use?

An alternative I proposed in another thread is



LL+7-SOC.


So the lower the SOC the more disarmed you are, the higher the better off. High LL still restricts but the upper classes got serious personal firepower advantages.


If you are feeling like REALLY putting on the class society clinic, apply that formula to all of the LL functions.


Among other things the underclass lives in a world of total oppression but also total bribery/corruption, and the higher classes have far more freedom- but will have far less chance to bribe their way out and get held to a higher standard.

 

[flykiller]

LL+7-SOC

an excellent consideration. I was looking more to an imperial standard (since soc is an imperium-relevant stat) but local planetary and march social standings will be very prominent too.