[DS] Infantry and Weapon Limits

I looked over the rules this morning and found that the reference to infantry
firing from their transport also includes a design example of a Size 3 APC
with 2 Inf Teams and *2* weapons: a Class 1 something and a GMS. I guess I was
assuming that since the infantry can fire then they're equivalent to a weapon
(without it actually being in the rules)

Actually, that is a common assumption and (BTW thank you, I was about to
type out all the DS2 references to weapons and Infantry - you saved us
*all* from that - in hopes of finding out what I might have missed) and
would be a viable house rule if it fit someone's campaign setting. Of course
the effect of all fire from the infantry riding in an IFV is basically good
only for (in DS2) an 'under fire' marker, IIRC.

Strictly IMO, it should be funny some time when a player insists on trying to
fire infantry in an 'evading' (Is that the term? Senior
moment) GEV/Grav IFV on making him roll dice to see if he suffers a
'fumble' (hit other IFV, shooters become casualties from being slammed around
interior of vehicle...) even if the GM really doesn't make it possible (hand
an average dice and tell him "On a six your men are casualties, on a one you
put an under fire marker on your unit, anything else is 'no effect'."

And yes, DS2 isn't supposed to either 'reflect reality' or 'predict the
future' but it's always nice when you can fit some real vehicle like the ACAV
into a DS2 design.

There is one small paragraph that could be taken as an in direct reference to
transported infantry as weapons but that came from my first
read of the rules and hasn't been supported by when I have re-read them.

I am trying to fit the idiosyncracies of Starguard into DS2 and Starwars
2250 AD into FT/FB1 - and finding the granularity of DS2 makes lot of
the Starguard quirks drop out due to scale. Some of the AFV's in Starguard
just don't transition easily into DS2.

Some military types I occasionally bump into at work refer to infantry units
as 'weapon systems' [but not in front of an Infantry officer!]

Hey, how about allowing infantry effective fire from an open top APC/IFV
as a reason to build open top vehicles?

Gracias,
Glenn/Triphibious
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 05:34:55 -0700 (PDT) Jakim Friant
<jmodule@yahoo.com> writes:
> I looked over the rules this morning and found that

> At 10:34 AM -0400 7/13/01, Glenn M Wilson wrote:

Screw that. They'd be holding on for dear life.

> [snip]

Depends. I lean towards the idea of using the Big cargo hatch like in the back
of the M113. But then seeing the Israelis running around with 4 guys in the
back of those even now, all with Light and Med MGs, half of an ACAV team would
still be a lot of firepower.