RE: [SG] Is this legal?

You're right it isn't legal as per the rules.

Some people have come up with rules mods to gain a better fire effect
from a
large squad; allowing a spill over in FP dice ie 6 ARs with FP3 gives FP
of
18 so a d12 and d6. Persoanlly I'd be in favour of just playing the game
out
with FPd12 after all with more guys on teh ground it is harder to get
them
all in a position to fire on teh same point target at exactly teh same
time.
Section/squad fire control is actually not all that easy; newbies in the
squad tend to get themselves into fire positions where they can't
provide
effective fire and hence don't contribute much, if anything, to the
firefight.

Owen G

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> From: Aron_Clark@digidesign.com [mailto:Aron_Clark@digidesign.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 2 November 1999 5:52 AM
> To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SG] Is this legal?
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> Yuck, dosen't the entire squad fire at the same target, I 
> thought there was some
> mention of this in the rules.  I'd say that in order to get 
> your two shots off
> the squad would have to be split.  I think the rational 
> behind large squads and
> high fire power ratings is that they remian effective longer 
> after receiving
> casulties.  I'm just learning the system though, so my 
> interpetations may be
> questionable.
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> Roger Books <books@mail.state.fl.us> on 11/01/99 10:13:08 AM
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> Subject:  [SG] Is this legal?
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> I'm just wondering is this legal:
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> I have a squad of 8 with automatic rifles/w grenade launchers,
> this gives them a 3 firepower each.
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> Using my first action I have 4 troopers fire at my target for
> an fp die of 12.  I then use my second action to have my remaining
> 4 troopers fire at the same target with an fp die of 12.
> 
> It feels a little "slimey", however, I'm not terribly thrilled with
> the idea that having twice the firepower have no affect on the combat.
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> I think I may institute a house rule that once you have your fp
> die of 12 excess troops start accumulating a new die if they have
> a minimum combined firepower of at least 4.
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> So the above case could be resolved as <quality><d12><d12>, or,
> if in the second range bracket <quality><d12><d8>.
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> I don't know, that mechanic might work, or maybe for every excess
> 4 fp you have the opponents cover mods are reduced by 1.
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> Would this break the system?
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> Roger
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