On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

BD/CA appear in LBB Book1 & ar actually surprisingly vulnerable to some of the weapons, like AutoRifles at short range, included there.

This make sense to me, since (IIRC) the "AutoRifle" was modeled on "battle rifles" firing full-scale rifle rounds [i. e. the FN-FAL], as opposed to "assault rifles" [i.e. the M-16] firing lighter, less-powerful rounds.

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