Re: SG II Snipers and the spirit of the game

Steve Gill wrote:

> My idea is roughly that you have decide up front whether you are
firing for
> effect or suppression.
>
> If suppression you don't make the roll, the target unit is suppressed.
>
> If effect you roll as usual to cause damage. There'd have to be some
sort of
> quality check to see if the target unit was suppressed or not if there
was a
> hit, it would be modified by the quality of the hit.

    OK, how would you handle that?  If you're going to work it that way,
why not
just treat sniper shots like every other small arms fire roll, i.e.
minor success
is suppression and major success is a hit plus suppression?

-Mike

>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> > [mailto:owner-gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Michael Sarno
> > Sent: 14 December 1999 14:44
> > To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> > Subject: Re: SG II Snipers and the spirit of the game
> >
> >
> > Steve Gill wrote:
> >
> > > May I suggest the automatic suppression is an option that can
> > only be taken if
> > > there was a chance of getting a shot in, but must be taken instead
of the
> > > shot.
> >
> > Steve,
> >	    I'd like to hear more, how would you change the rest of the
> > sniper rules?
> > The rules as written give automatic suppression for each sniper shot
fired,
> > regardless of the roll.  Further, only minor success is needed to
> > hit a member of
> > the the target squad.  How would you handle squads that are
> > receiving sniper fire
> > but have not been hit?

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