RE: [SG] vehicle fire combat question

Hmm, honestly I would be recommending that you don't play the rules as
such
but play "the game". What do I mean you ask?

In an infantry squad, fire control can include/exclude squad heavy
weapons:
"Section, 200m, 11 o'clock, left edge of tree line, rapid, FIRE!" as
opposed
to "Rifle Group, 200m, 12 o'clock, right edge of tree line 1 minute
sustained, FIRE"

A vehicle will generally engage a point target with teh main gun and use
the
SAW in an anit-infantry role or perhaps to indicate a fall of
shot/target
for someone else. Consider engaging a hardened building; generally a
vehicle
would EITHER engage the target with the main gun in hopes of destroying
it
or hose it with MG fire to suppress whoever is inside (or maybe provoke
a
response? Recon by fire...).

So really I would be asking why you are trying to fire both weapons. :-)

Cheers,

Owen G

> -----Original Message-----
> From: JDoch226@aol.com [mailto:JDoch226@aol.com]
> Sent: Monday, 20 September 1999 1:04
> To: GZG-L@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject: [SG] vehicle fire combat question
> 
> 
> I have a vehicle with a heavy weapon and a SAW, and I want to 
> fire at a 
> single target.  Do I use one action to fire the heavy weapon 
> and the SAW 
> together, rolling three dice (the quality die, the firecon 
> die, and the SAW 
> support firepower die)?  Or do I have to use two actions, one 
> to fire the 
> heavy weapon, and one to fire the SAW?  The first option 
> seems right based on 
> the way infantry fire works, but the 'adding support 
> firepower' rules refer 
> to infantry only.
> Thanks,
> Jed Docherty
>