but having the capital permanently named to AS-CC-77 in every report from now on? that is terrible.
Yeah, it's awful.
Change AS-CC-77's name to Arstotzka.
Hehe, if you guys like I can definitely do that. I did like the obstinate bureaucracy AS-CC-77 characterized.
and Kot, stop antagonizing the GM. If he, after a lengthy discussion, makes a rule, that rule is law. This universe will have different physics if it needs to be.
I'm not necessarily antagonizing the GM, I am antagonizing recoiless rifles penetrating anything with AP. Also magic.
And you know what happens when GM forces rules despite them being retarded?
Old Man Henderson happens.
EDIT:
Also, there was no real discussion, at least not with the GM.
In regards to the first Moskurg RR, the Rhino, I did have a proper discussion. I came to the conclusion that it might be a little unlikely for its time, but I don't think it's stupidly absurd as a matter of physics. I also got pretty annoyed with the attitude of Arstotzkans over it, at the time.
Anyway, I should also say that if you consult my armor chart from a while back, your medium tank armor still a lot less than, say, the WWII tanks which were vulnerable only to shaped-charge rifle grenades. I do believe there is an argument to be made that the Recoilless Rifle is one of those weapons which had all the potential to be designed into an effective version during the interwar period, but there was no motivation for countries to do so once the depression hit and that is why we didn't see better recoilless rifles until much later. Not unlike Arstotzka's panzerfaust-in-1928 RPG.
There are game reasons as well that I make my decision; chiefly I don't want to suddenly pull the rug out from under Moskurg after they've had a weapon for a while and made plans around it. I feel bad in general about taking something back that's given. I've even given thought to consciously and officially "dialing down" the realism and historical standards to which I hold new designs, just because I wonder if it is worth the effort sometimes (though I'm not doing that yet). I feel like I have to keep track of a fairly large amount of stuff already, and if weapons designs have me busting out the calculator I'm just not getting turns out on time, or having fun writing for that matter. Either way, it may have been the first measurably ahistorical weapon, but at the rate both of your nations are going it will not be the last. You've mostly caught up with real countries, who are now at peace and scrambling to fix the great depression, while you're at war with a bustling domestic war economy.