Re: [GZG] FMA skirmish

[Ground Zero Games <jon@xxxxxxx>]

> damosan@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I think you're mixing the ideas of suppresive fire vs. being 
> > suppressed.  You can do suppresive fire in FMA-S easily enough 
> > assuming your GM allows you to do so.  For example...
>
> Help!  Help!  I'm being suppressed!
>
> OK, that makes sense.  I was combining both into the same mechanic 
> but they are being handled differently.  The act of being suppressed 
> has an actual rule behind it, where suppressive fire is just an 
> special, non-standard action.
>
> > You have a mounted LMG with spare barrels, a case of cold beer, a 
> > dedicated secondary gunner, and many belts of ammo.
> >
> > If *I* was the GM I'd allow you, as an action, to turn the gun on 
> > and lay suppresive fire towards some distant target forming a cone 
> > from the barrel of the gun to the target.  Any figure activating in 
> > this cone has a chance to get splattered.  As the GM I'd fudge the 
> > firepower roll to sort of model the fact that you arn't going for 
> > accurate fire but to lay out enough lead to have people keep their 
> > heads down.  I'd further modify this number based on the lay of the 
> > gun and the final target. 
> > Are you doing grazing fire?  Plunging fire?  Are you shooting up at 
> > the target area?  Anyway that's all GM fudging at that point.
>
> Understood :)
>
> > With that said...
> >
> > If you have enough stress markers the chance of passing your 
> > activation test becomes as close to zero as you can get.  The 
> > affect is worse than it was in the '99 set.
>
> Just to make sure I have this right ... each time you are stressed 
> you get a marker.  When the model tries to activate, a test must be 
> made modified by the number of stress markers.  If the model passes 
> the test, the stress counters go away and it can make actions 
> normally.  If the model doesn't pass the test, they don't get their 
> normal activation. Does a failure mean a rout, or just a loss of 
> activation?


Jumping in here...
First fail means a "shaken" chit, which adds to the difficulty of 
passing further tests; second fail replaces this with a "broken", and 
figure either flees the table or curls into a ball and huddles there 
for the rest of the game....

> > Generally it's some action and shooting.  So you can move and 
> > shoot...drag a wounded buddy and shoot.  You have to use common 
> > sense though.  You can't be trying to crack a safe and lay fire at 
> > the same time.
>
> OK, that's what I was looking for.  The bottom line is that it 
> sounds like you can perform multiple actions, but you can't combine 
> two movement or shooting actions in the same activation.  Correct?


Not as I intended it (though this may be how some people are reading 
the test rules, because I haven't had the time to do a revised 
version for FAR too long now....). I'm quite happy with shoot/shoot, 
move/move etc.

One of these days I'll get some time to write this all up properly 
and let folks have a reasonably coherent set to play with!  ;-)

Jon (GZG)
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