RE: [SG] No idea what I am doing. Help!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Cowell [SMTP:andy@cowell.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 9:15 AM
> To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject:	Re: [SG] No idea what I am doing. Help! 
> 
> In message
> <2A5C49585B46EC42BB99D3000F725D4707479B@col1smx01.dscc.dla.mil>, "Be
> ll, Brian K (Contractor)" writes:
> > 
> > If you are firing more than one support weapon, then you are not
firing
> it
> > INDIVIDUALLY, you are firing it as part of a group.  :-)
> >
> > It just seems hokey to me to allow 7 SAWs and 1 rifle to fire in an
> action,
> > but not 2 SAWs without a rifle to fire in an action.
> 
> The rules make no case for firing support weapons as a group without
> small arms fire.  I'm not stating that this is necessarily logical,
> I'm just stating that is how the rules are.
-----End Original Message-----

I'm not intending to argue either, just point out an oddity in an
otherwise
fine game. 

Seems like a canidate for Murphy's Rules (Steve Jackson's collection of
strange rules in various games).

Maybe it is covered in "don't play the rules, play the game".

---
Brian Bell