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Message no. 1
From: Marc A Renouf <jormung@*****.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: ECM and Sensor-aided targetting
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 10:28:58 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Paul J. Adam wrote:

> It's a little wider than that. SR lumps ECM, IRCM, LCM et al into one
> "countermeasures" bucket. Your IR jammer, deception ECM, chaff, flare,
> laser warning reciever are all "ECM" to Shadowrun.
>
> Also, your enemy is engaging with gunfire. He'll be using a radar or
> laser rangefinder. Mess with the range, doppler or bearing rate and his
> fire control goes slightly off: he had the pipper on the target yet he's
> still missing.

Exactly. Any time your opponent uses Sensor-aided targetting,
the ECM measures (which PJA accurately points out are abstracted for ease
of playability) will modify the target number even if the weapon is an
LOS weapon like a rotary autocannon.
If, on the other hand, the gunner subscribes to the "Use to
Force, Luke" school of targetting, he won't get the ECM modifiers tacked
onto his target number. But now he doesn't get the extra sensor dice,
and has to worry about range categories, relative movement, visibility,
and a horde of *other* modifiers that fire-control computers
(Sensor-aided targetting) effectively sidestep. You win some, you lose
some.

Marc

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