Re: [DL] Question About Recoil

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

You are correct - the recoil is only for additional bursts fired on the 
same action, meaning that it's a rule that really only comes into play with 
full blown Gatling guns or in Hell on Earth.

At 10:07 AM 4/9/2001 -0700, you wrote:
 >Last night I was reading a response to a post on GO
 >and it confused me about the way recoil works.
 >
 >The (revised) Player's Handbook states that there is a
 >-2 cumulative recoil penalty for every 3 bullet burst
 >fired after the first in the same *ACTION.*
 >
 >This implies to me that for this to even come into
 >play the weapon must have a rate of fire of at least
 >6.  Two 3 bullet bursts in one action.
 >
 >However, the post I read last night seemed to imply
 >that the penalty applied to bursts fire on
 >*CONSECUTIVE* actions.  That is, if your weapon has a
 >ROF of 3 and you fire off one 3 bullet burst on your
 >first action and then fire off a second 3 bullet burst
 >on your next action it suffers the -2 recoil penalty.
 >
 >So which is it?  Is it ever additional burst in the
 >SAME action as the Player's Handbook implys or every
 >CONSECUTIVE action as the post implys.
 >
 >Thanks.
 >
 >Jesse
 >
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