Ammo issue

bdenoon

Refugee
Howdy All!
Simple and, some may say, picky point.
AP Ammo is, well, incorrect; adding lead to a projectile does not make it AP, a tungsten or perhaps steel core to a lead bullet would make more sense.
Steel would be the simplest to implement in my opinion, as all the ingredients already exist in the game; in my opinion, adding a unit of steel would make it AP for gaming considerations at least....balance out the lead as you see fit.
The other thing is....well somewhat personal....LOL!
I'm retired Army, when we were firing on the range, we had the chance to "Police" our spent casings and gather up the brass, is this a possible adaptation?
Perhaps making brass through stripping electrical parts, (Copper and Zinc), on say...the work bench, then smelting in to Brass? This would give a reasonable secondary source for players.
Policing the brass was NEVER perfect, and quite often there were rounds missing, so a percentage of loss could be incorporated to maintain the need for salvaging.
 
Howdy All!
Simple and, some may say, picky point.
AP Ammo is, well, incorrect; adding lead to a projectile does not make it AP, a tungsten or perhaps steel core to a lead bullet would make more sense.
Steel would be the simplest to implement in my opinion, as all the ingredients already exist in the game; in my opinion, adding a unit of steel would make it AP for gaming considerations at least....balance out the lead as you see fit.
The other thing is....well somewhat personal....LOL!
I'm retired Army, when we were firing on the range, we had the chance to "Police" our spent casings and gather up the brass, is this a possible adaptation?
Perhaps making brass through stripping electrical parts, (Copper and Zinc), on say...the work bench, then smelting in to Brass? This would give a reasonable secondary source for players.
Policing the brass was NEVER perfect, and quite often there were rounds missing, so a percentage of loss could be incorporated to maintain the need for salvaging.
Well, when it comes to tungsten, it needs a lot more than 2000+°F to where it's malleable, tungsten requires 6000+°F to melt. In which case, there's no forge in the game to melt tungsten and there's no tungsten in the game.

If you need brass, the radiator from cars or those white metal heaters you see mounted on walls in houses (use the wrench on em) give a lot of brass when you smelt em down (250 brass). Policing spent casings would be very tedious for most players and take too much time looking for all of em, especially if using an MG.
 
There's at least one mod that added a brass catcher as a mod that could be added to some (all?) guns.

But the easiest source of brass is dukes.

Steel for ammo would be a hard no for most people, I'd think. Not that you ever really need to craft ammo any more.
 
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