If I understand rightly, in SG2, if you are firing a support weapon on its
own, you get a firepower die, and a quality die. If you fire using
firecontrol, you roll quality and fire control.
Let's say I've got a decent support weapon with D10 firepower (although using
a bipod or some such), and a D8 quality die. That's fairly dangerous as an
attack.
Change that to an RFAC/1 which is actually probably more dangerous in
a real world sense (a.50 M2HB on a NHT or a M234 Gatling on a NHT), and it
becomes less effective instead of more (like I think it should). You roll fire
control die (D4 or D6) and your quality die (D8). Does anyone notice how much
weaker this is? Wowzers!
Perhaps one should be rolling firepower die too.....
Thoughts from GZG or from other list members?
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Causing damage with the RFAC/1 may be more difficult, but is capable of
causing major damage to vehicles (unlike small-arms) or regularly
wasting PA troopers. This is your trade-off for a reduced firecontrol
(don't forget, no firecon gives d4 firecontrol minimum).
'Neath Southern Skies
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> -----Original Message-----
> At 03:41 PM 3/4/1998 -0500, you wrote:
Remember that a Heavy weapon (the RFAC in this case) has a range band of 12
inches versus a size one vehicle or a squad of men. Against a size 2 vehcile
it has a range band of 24 and sop on... The SAW has a range band that is
dependant on the quality of the troops firing it. Therefore a regular squad
firing a SAW against a target squad in the open 24 inches away with a SAW of
FP D10 rolls a D10 and a D8 against a D10. Meanwhile the same squad firing an
RFAC 1 with basic FC (D6) rolls a D6 and a D8 versus a D6. Not only does the
RFAC have a better chance of getting a hit but the number of hits will be
higher as the damage denominator is now 6 vice 10...
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