RE: [HOE] weapon speeds and double taps

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hoe@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-hoe@gamerz.net] On 
> Behalf Of Scott Pedersen
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 2:25 PM
> To: hoe@gamerz.net
> Subject: Re: [HOE] weapon speeds and double taps
> 
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > One of my players has just found the old double tap rules in the HOE
setting
> > book. As I understand it, if a character double taps he fires at a 
> > target and
> > if he gets a raise both bullets hit the same location. futher double 
> > taps ine
> > the same round incure a penalty, fair enough.
> >
> > The question I have is this...
> >
> > In the revised rules it states that double action pistols can fire 
> > twice in the
> > same action (update from weapon speeds changed to 1). Does this mean 
> > that:
> 
> As I understand it, a doubletap is basically the same as a 
> burst from a fully automatic weapon.  That is, a success on 
> the to-hit roll gets you one hit, a raise gets you two.  
> Also, if you do get two hits, they hit the same target, but 
> the exact location is determined separately for each bullet. 
> The only difference from a burst is, there is only two 
> bullets rather than a cluster of three.

This is basically how we play it.  The only difference being that if you use
a semi-auto pistol to double tap, you get both bullets into one location,
but using ROF2 on revolvers and getting both hits gets you two location
rolls.

Jeff Y.