Explosives

This is a simple conversion to HERO damage for a given weight of explosive without fragmentation, i.e. Normal Damage. It uses the House Rule standard progression of 1.53779192x.

Various types of explosive material require different amounts to achieve the same effect. Thus a Relative Effectiveness modifier is provided for common types. At the very low end, the blast may not fill an entire map hex, in those cases an activation roll is used to determine if a given target experiences damage from the blast.

Explosive Conversion			Relative Effectiveness
Wgt (kg)	Wgt (lbs)	Effect	Explosive	REC
0.0024	0.0053	1d6	PETN	1.66
0.0048	0.0106	2d6	Nitroglycerin	1.50
0.0074	0.0162	3d6	C3	1.34
0.0114	0.0250	4d6	C4	1.34
0.0175	0.0384	5d6	Torpex	1.26
0.0268	0.0591	6d6	Composition B	1.25
0.0413	0.0908	7d6	Tetryl	1.25
0.0635	0.1397	8d6	Tetrytol	1.25
0.0976	0.2148	9d6	Pentolite	1.20
0.1501	0.3303	10d6	80/20	1.17
0.2308	0.5079	11d6	Barytol	1.17
0.3550	0.7810	12d6	RDX	1.14
0.5459	1.2010	13d6	Tritonal	1.11
0.8395	1.8469	14d6	TNT	1.00
1.2910	2.8401	15d6	Picric Acid	0.94
1.9852	4.3675	16d6	Guncotton	0.92
3.0528	6.7163	17d6	Nitro Starch	0.86
4.6946	10.3282	18d6	60% Dynamite	0.83
7.2194	15.8826	19d6	50% Dynamite	0.79
11.1019	24.4242	20d6	60% Gelignite	0.76
17.0724	37.5593	21d6	40% Dynamite	0.65
26.2538	57.7584	22d6	Black Powder	0.55
40.3729	88.8205	23d6	Mercury Fulminate	0.51
62.0852	136.5874	24d6	40% Gelignite	0.42
95.4741	210.0430	25d6	Ammonium Nitrate	0.42
146.8193	323.0024	26d6	Lead Azide	0.39
225.7775	496.7104	27d6	Smokeless Powder	0.25
347.1988	763.8373	28d6