Kitbag 5 (book)

Kitbag 5
Close Assault Weapons
Author		Martin Dougherty
Publisher		Avalon Game Company
Version		Generic Traveller
Format		PDF
Language		English
Pages		14
Year Published		2013
Canonical		No
Available from		DriveThru RPG

Kitbag 5 is an Avalon Game Company sourcebook for Generic Traveller.

Close assault weapons are intended for use, as the name suggests, at very short ranges and often in a confined space. They are excellent for room-to-room urban combat but may lack the range to engage an opponent in more open terrain. In a close combat situation the ability to put a lot of rounds into the target is often more important than long-range marksmanship, so close assault weapons are generally built for firepower rather than accuracy.

Secondary considerations include lightness and general ‘handiness’, i.e. how fast a weapon can be maneuvered in a confined space and brought to bear on a target. This can be very significant when high-firepower weapons are being used at close quarters – often survival is a matter of shooting first and shooting a lot.

Although urban combat is the commonest close-assault environment, it is by no means the only one. Spacecraft and associated installations are another area where short-range weapons are ideal – it is rare that a starship corridor is long enough that even a handgun would lack the effective range to hit a target at the other end. Specialist low-gravity weapons are manufactured for combat in space, since the recoil of a conventional weapon may disorient a combatant and could in some cases send him spinning out of control in the middle of a firefight. Close-assault weapons are also used in many security applications, not least since security personnel tend to operate in fairly close terrain or inside buildings.

The close-assault environment is an area where specialist ammunition sees a lot of use, sometimes to compensate for the low power of a weapon designed to have little recoil. Other applications for specialist ammunition include less-lethal rounds, breaching charges and a range of unique applications.

Credits

Author

Martin Dougherty

Table of Contents

Kitbag 5 (book)

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This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Martin Dougherty. Kitbag 5 (Avalon Game Company, 2013), 1.