From: Allan Goodall <agoodall@a...>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:05:55 -0500
Subject: [SG2] Range Bands for Support Weapons on Vehicles
What does everyone use as the range band size for vehicle-mounted support weapons, such as a SAW mounted on a tank or an AGL on an APC? I went through the rules. This is a hole in the rules. It says that support weapons use should use the quality die of the squad firing it, but this isn't a squad firing it, it's a vehicle's crew (page 33). The rules say that heavy weapons use range bands of 12", but these are infantry support weapons, not heavy weapons (page 37, with definition of a heavy weapon on page 29). It goes on to say that multipliers to the range band (i.e. 12" x the size class of the point target) are not for MAN-CARRIED and manually fired weapons (emphasis from the rulebook). This implies that there's a difference between a man-carried and manually fired weapon and one mounted on a vehicle (page 37). These weapons are not man-carried, though they may be manually fired. So, what is it? Do vehicle mounted infantry support weapons have 12" range bands ala class 1 weapons, or do they have the same range bands (based on quality) that their counterparts in a squad have? I'm leaning towards quality die based range bands, but I'm curious how others handle this (and whether anyone has found a rule in the book to cover this).