Re: [GZG] FMA skirmish

>damosan@comcast.net wrote:
>>I think you're mixing the ideas of suppresive fire vs. being 
>>suppressed.  You can do suppresive fire in FMA-S easily enough 
>>assuming your GM allows you to do so.  For example...
>
>Help!	Help!  I'm being suppressed!
>
>OK, that makes sense.	I was combining both into the same mechanic 
>but they are being handled differently.  The act of being suppressed 
>has an actual rule behind it, where suppressive fire is just an 
>special, non-standard action.
>
>>You have a mounted LMG with spare barrels, a case of cold beer, a 
>>dedicated secondary gunner, and many belts of ammo.
>>
>>If *I* was the GM I'd allow you, as an action, to turn the gun on 
>>and lay suppresive fire towards some distant target forming a cone 
>>from the barrel of the gun to the target.  Any figure activating in 
>>this cone has a chance to get splattered.  As the GM I'd fudge the 
>>firepower roll to sort of model the fact that you arn't going for 
>>accurate fire but to lay out enough lead to have people keep their 
>>heads down.  I'd further modify this number based on the lay of the 
>>gun and the final target. 
>>Are you doing grazing fire?  Plunging fire?  Are you shooting up at 
>>the target area?  Anyway that's all GM fudging at that point.
>
>Understood :)
>
>>With that said...
>>
>>If you have enough stress markers the chance of passing your 
>>activation test becomes as close to zero as you can get.  The 
>>affect is worse than it was in the '99 set.
>
>Just to make sure I have this right ... each time you are stressed 
>you get a marker.  When the model tries to activate, a test must be 
>made modified by the number of stress markers.  If the model passes 
>the test, the stress counters go away and it can make actions 
>normally.  If the model doesn't pass the test, they don't get their 
>normal activation. Does a failure mean a rout, or just a loss of 
>activation?

Jumping in here...
First fail means a "shaken" chit, which adds to the difficulty of 
passing further tests; second fail replaces this with a "broken", and 
figure either flees the table or curls into a ball and huddles there 
for the rest of the game....

>
>>Generally it's some action and shooting.  So you can move and 
>>shoot...drag a wounded buddy and shoot.  You have to use common 
>>sense though.  You can't be trying to crack a safe and lay fire at 
>>the same time.
>
>OK, that's what I was looking for.  The bottom line is that it 
>sounds like you can perform multiple actions, but you can't combine 
>two movement or shooting actions in the same activation.  Correct?

Not as I intended it (though this may be how some people are reading 
the test rules, because I haven't had the time to do a revised 
version for FAR too long now....). I'm quite happy with shoot/shoot, 
move/move etc.

One of these days I'll get some time to write this all up properly 
and let folks have a reasonably coherent set to play with!  ;-)

Jon (GZG)
_______________________________________________
Gzg-l mailing list
Gzg-l@lists.csua.berkeley.edu
http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l