Modern Combat

See also: Vehicles, Surprise and Tactics.

The main complication for modern combat is automatic fire. These are some brain storming notes for the main set of rules which can be found at http://www.glendale.org.uk/yags/core/combat.html.

See official rules for current set of rules. These are some ideas for updates based on player feedback.

See also: guns

Current possible issues:

• Triple shot is worse than multiple shots for some weapons.
• No penalty for multiple shots with lasers.

When using the multiple shot manouevre:

• The base fumble chance is equal to the number of shots.
• The recoil penalty applies to subsequent shots.
• -5 penalty to all shots per number of shots over your skill.
• -10 penalty per target beyond the first, if have Multiple targets technique.

Special form of automatic fire, only possible if the weapon is designed for it.

• Burst is a single attack. If it causes damage, doubles the wounds/stuns caused.
• A gun has a hardware limitation of a number of bursts equal to the number of fully automatic bursts it can fire (i.e. 1 three round burst per 10 RoF).
• You may fire multiple bursts, each subsequent one suffers recoil penalty and the base fumble chance is twice the number of bursts.

• Three rounds, all one attack. Any damage caused is tripled.
• Only once per round.
• No modifier to the fumble chance.

Some thoughts about ranged attacks with firearms.

Typical infantryman, with Perception 3 and skill 4 and M1 Garand (+7 Atk, 20m increment).

A similar infantryman who has the 'Sharpshooter' technique.

Now we give the same guy a x2 scope (+5 accuracy) when aiming. This takes the weapon up to the maximum short range of the weapon.

For a springfield with x2 scope:

Someone with Perception 4, Skill 6 plus x2 scope can shoot out to 750m.

A highly skilled sniper, Perception 5, Skill 8, plus x2 scope can shoot out to 1000m.