Re: FMA skirmish questions

Jerry wrote:
> 
> >Perhaps the following could be used: Weapons are rated not in how
many
> >rounds of ammunition but how many fire actions they have.  Just keep
a
> >small stack (1-4) of chits with each soldier.  Once they're out, they
> >need to spend 1 action reloading (they are considered to have
infinite
> >reloads however).
> 
> ooohh...this is getting scary.   You realize that the amount of
amunition
> and reloads would change acording to the quality die.   That untrained
> militia would shoot up his ammo quicker than that grizzled veteran.

Probably, but I wouldn't actually go that far in the recordkeeping. 
Just set a number of fire actions per weapon (or even weapon type) and
stick to that.	There are already penalties for quality of troops, no
sense putting them in twice.
 
> I think kthis is a BIT over the top....

Maybe, but no more than the optional ammo rule that already exists in
SG2 for heavy weapons.	If I was controlling 5-10 figures I wouldn't
mind keeping track of ammo that way.  Still, I'll concede that it should
probably go into the optional rules section.

Tom

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Thomas Pope
Human Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
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