[DS]Single weapon firing

Has anyone done any house rules on this? I don't firing only one large weapon,
but then I look at my Hover Combat Cars in the style of Hammer's SLammers. It
has 3 guys on 3 pintle mounted power guns. I just have trouble not seeing all
3 firing when in among their opponents.

Any ideas?

I view the fire rate, power, and single weapon rule in the following light:

The stats of a weapon represent the weapon being used in a nonsuppression
(effective) mode over the entire 15 minute turn. This may be the one or more
quick shots taken as the target darts between buildings or sustained fire over
the 15 minute turn. Other weapons may be firing, but do not add to this
_effective_ fire.

So in the example of the combat car, either all guns are concentrating fire on
one target or one gun is doing effective fire against a primary target and the
others are doing suppression fire against secondary and tertiary targets
(below the detail level of DS2).

You could use a house rule to change this, but do you really want
mini-Ogres
blasting away at everything in sight with 5 different guns?

Perhaps, when DS3 is written (with a revised construction system), the crew or
AI will take up capacity points. Something like: Driver**: 1 capacity point
FCS**: 1 capacity point per weapon* per target. Example: If you have 2 guns
and you want to be able to fire at 2 targets it would cost (2x2=) 4 capacity
points * Linked weapons, of the same type and class, that fire at the same
target count as 1 weapon. ** Human or AI

Until then, you could use house rules:
- For each additional weapon type and/or class fired at the _same_
target, shift FCS down 1.
- For each additional target, shift FCS down 1.
- No weapon may fire twice in a given turn.

We house-ruled the combat car company I have.

We treat them each pintel mount as having a 180 degree restricted arc. Which
produces two areas of overlap in each of the front corners. Fire at targets
within these corners is down as if it is from a dual-mounted weapon
system.

I cannot remember the rest off of the top of my head, but I think we never let
more than 2 fire independantly.

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