RE: SG2: Vehicles with turreted infantry weapons

Hi Ted,

>Just wanted to do a quick survey and see how the folks on the list are
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treating turreted=20
infantry weapons on their vehicles in SG2 (and DS2 for that matter).  =
I'm talking=20
vehicles like the British Ferret with it's turreted .30 cal machine gun
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and the US Marine
LVT amphibious APC with it's turreted .50 cal machine gun and 40mm MK19
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automatic
grenade launcher.

--> Well, the .30 would be a turreted SAW (so, you would use the
vehicle's
FC and not the weapons' firepower rating).  The .50 would be an RFAC/1,
and
follow the standard heavy weapon rules, and as for the 40mmGL - I'd
probably play that as a turreted Automatic Grenade Launcher (as per the
rules for that from the chart in the book).  Alternatively, you could
use
the Vehicle Mounted Grenade Launcher rules that Tom Barclay and I made
up,
see http://fox.nstn.ca/~kaladorn/Gaming/TechToolbox.htm for the time
being.

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>Using your LVT example: 
FP: d10, I:d10 mg + FP:d12, I:d8 grenade launcher
Resolve with Q + d10 + d12, Impact of the LOWER = d8.
You could theoretically spend 2 separate fire actions to fire them
individually, but personally I think it starts getting a strong chedder
flavour.

-->Except that if the weapons are vehicle mounted, you would use the
vehicle FC die type, not the weapon's FP die type...

-->So, in the case of a turret with linked SAW and GL and a vehicle with
Enhanced FC, you would be rolling Q + d8 + d8.	Impact would be d8 (or
d10,
depending on your weapons).  Range bands would be as per standard
vehicle
weapons (12", and 12"xsize if firing the GL in anti-armour role against
a
point target with a size class, using the GL's d8* armour penetration
rating).  

Adrian

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Adrian Johnson