[MR] Missile Weapon "Red Scare"

[Siegfried Sebastian Faust]

>Yes, I am aware of the color blind issue, but there is not going to be 
>anything green flying through the air unless you hit someone very hard in 
>the back of the head. With roughly 10% of the male fighters being color 
>blind, and maybe 1 % of the females, all they have to do is take a hit 
>from a 4 foot long grey javilin like thing hitting them from out of the 
>sky, they will have to take it or relie on there buddy telling them what 
>it was.

Well, sure there could be green stuff.

I have a friend at work who is red-green color blind.  And at least to him, 
red or green things don't look 'gray', but they look like red/green.  It is 
one color to him.

So a 4ft Red Ballista Bolt flying at him, and a 3ft GREEN taped Golf Tube 
(Because someone choose to for 'marking' their own).  Are going to look 
very close to each other.

And a 4ft Red Ballista Bolt, and a 4ft Green Hand Javelin, are going to 
look IDENTICAL.

So the point does still stand.  That if we are truly wanting to pick a 
single color, that all 'kill through shield' weapons can be marked 
with.  EITHER, it shouldn't be red, or if it is red, It should state in the 
rules that golf tube arrows and hand Javelins should NOT be covered in 
green tape.

Otherwise we have a rule that helps 90% of the fighters on the field 
(approximately), and the other 10% are still operating under the 'original' 
rule of having to look at the ammo in detail (or have a buddy tell them).

A different color (or banning green tape from similar ammo), would make it 
work for 99.5% of people!  (Reserving .5% for people with the more rare 
color blindness's that exist and you can't account for everyone *grin*)

Siegfried

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Lord Siegfried Sebastian Faust               Barony of Highland Foorde
Baronial Web Minister          http://highland-foorde.atlantia.sca.org