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The standard WinSPMBT Booby Trap is apparently a weak 120mm mortar round (1/2 the HEK)
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Originally Posted by Imp
Seems to work pretty well more chance of a suppress result than a kill, representing caution looking for it. Oops did get a kill fond it in that 50m hex.
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Originally Posted by Marcello
Booby traps are can be made out of pretty much anything, so it would be hard to settle on a right value. Perhaps it could be built around hand grenade value, as it would be the most easy/common item, but no big deal.
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I agree booby traps work pretty well as is. I'd considered that perhaps they should be closer to 81mm mortar values, but mines function quite well as in-hex-only explosives.
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Your average IED is a Fertilizer Bomb ... and an impressive bomb it is !
It compares VERY favorably to the standard 1000kg aerial bomb !
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Originally Posted by Imp
Okay possibly another smaller one should be available...
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Originally Posted by Marcello
The name should not be taken too literally, it could be that or something else. There have been quite a few massive IED used in Iraq, made with multiple heavy shells (240/155/152mm) linked together and buried, powerful enough to rip apart an Abrams and send its turret flying away. I had proposed the addition of an intermediate size IED to simulate the more common types (one or two arty shells emplaced near the road) but the big bang types have been definitively been used.
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While I think the current Fertilizer Bomb works very nicely as a truck bomb or the rare huge IED I think it's much to powerful to represent your average one or two shell IED.