RE: SGII Questions

Date sent:  19-AUG-1996 09:14:38 

>I've got a couple of questions about Stargrunt II (after having just 
>played my first game of it):

>1.  I've got the Kryomek wheeled APCs and they have a double-barreled 
>gattling gun turret as well as four seperate firing slits.  Now, what I

>wanted to do is make it a Size 2 vehicle with an extra SAW and four 
>"infantry gun" mounts to represent the firing slits, and then capacity 
>for 5 infantry.  Is this legal?  Technically, that's like 5 systems in
a 
>size 2 vehicle, which in Dirtside is not kosher, but I don't know if 
>"infantry gun mounts" would even come into play in the Dirtside scale, 
>anyway.  I'm not looking for the standard "that's whats great about GZG

>games you cand do whatever you want" answer, I'm curious as to whether 
>there's actually something in the rules that I'm missing.

No. no 'infantry gun' mounts are needed. You can fire a rifle through
a slit, but your firepower will be limited as you will only have a
very few slits facing the enemy. Note that small arms can suppress
vehicles and buildings, preventing a squad inside from opening doors
and windows, disembarking, firing etc. Simply treat your vehicle as
a building with wheels.

>2.  What happens when you have twin-mounted guns on vehicles?	I assume

>twin-mounted SAWs would just add an extra firepower die, but what about

>twin-mounted Heavy Weapons?  To take a specific example, if I had a
twin 
>mounted RFAC/1 with Enhanced Firecon on a vehicle piloted by a regular 
>firing against infantry that would be a d8 for regular quality and a d8

>for Enhanced firecon versus the range band for one of the twin mounts, 
>right?  Now how do I factor in the second mount?  Just add another d8 
>as if it were a SAW adding firepower (that's what I did)?

Not sure. I presume that it works like DS2, with rolling  dice for
each weapon, but only a single die for the defender. Any hits are
resolved separately.

>3.  If units are "in position" and they are attacked from behind, do
they 
>still get the bonus for being "in position"?  If they attack a unit 
>behind them do they have to get "out of position" before doing so?  (as

>far as I can tell, squads have no real "facing")

As you say, there is no facing, but if using a linear obstical, such as
a wall, I would not count them as 'in position'. They are still 'in
position' for units on the other side of the wall. They would not
have to get 'out of position' to shoot at the attackers, but would if
they wanted to charge them. It might be a good idea to come out of
position
and jump over that wall.

If the cover is a forest, or other non linear obstical, then this
problem
does not occur.

>4.  What happens if an entire unit is wounded?  Can the unit even still

>activate?  We played that it could activate, try to remove its 
>suppression, and then reorganize to check the wounded, but who knows?	
>(I guess this really doesn't have much of an effect on the game anyway,

>since there's no one left in the unit to carry them to safety, anyway).

I'd say no activation. Have you considered using another squad to check
and move the wounded? My space Marine command squad spends most of it's
time doing that.

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