Re: [SG2]Questions

>  First off, how do you people deal with buildings and 
>such? To scale they should be about the size of 1/300th 
>scale buildings (1" = 10m) but that seems silly when the 
>models are 25mm high...

In the rule book, GZG (Jon) suggests that for buildings, vehicle models,
etc, keep them in scale to the troop models and when drawing line of
sight,
looking at fields of fire and what obscures what - use the models as
literal representatives of what's there.  The figure scale and the
ground
scale are SO different that trying to say "well, this vehicle is
*actually*
only 1" long, and only blocks line-of-site if the LOS crosses the middle
of
the model" leads to a really cumbersome and debateable result.	We play
with the same idea that Andrew Martin suggested - you can assume a
building
is representative of a bunch of buildings, and that if a squad of troops
is
hiding behind an apc, they are really behind the apc - even though the
model is 6" long but to scale it should be 1"...  It gets way too
confusing
if you try anything else.

>
>  One of the 'sample platoons' the ESU one if I recall 
>includes a 20mm cannon (RFAC) for use with power armour - 
>is this treated as a crew served weapon?
>

No, for the same reason that PA railguns aren't.  They are specially
designed PA equipment.

>  Speaking of the RFAC, why is it such a poor 
>anti-personnel weapon? - all of the vehicle weapons use D8 
>for their 'damage' even the RFAC (which one would expect to 
>be at least more effective) and the DFFG (which was good as 
>I recall in DS2)
>

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong here - I don't have my rules handy at
work, but I think that the way vehicle weapon damage works is that
against
dispersed targets, the weapon causes damage at it's lowest possible
damage
rating - that is the weapon's rated base damage.  It isn't limited to
just
a d8.  I forget the page that this is on (my memory says around p39 in
the
book?????), but there is a listing of the basic types of heavy weapons
and
their base damage ratings.

RFAC has a base damage of d10 times it's size class, for firing against
dispersed targets and for minor hits on vehicles.  If you have an RFAC/2
on
a vehicle with Enhanced fire control and a Regular quality crew, and you
fire at a squad of infantry, you would roll 2d8 for the "firepower" (vs.
their defense die), and roll d10x2 for damage.	A 40mm autocannon is
going
to do nasty things to infantry - I would assume the weapons have a
choice
of ammo (anti-armour and anti-infantry) the same way big autocannons
today do.

Adrian Johnson
ajohnson@idirect.com

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