Message no. 1

From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Weapon modes (was: Re: Dodging)
Date:	Fri, 10 Mar 1995 10:34:30 +0100

>That reminds me of something about free actions which has bugged me for a
>long time. The rules have it that it takes a free action to change weapon
>modes (from SA, to BF or FA). And apparently (I've never used one myself)
>the Styers the Australian Army uses fire different numbers of bullets
>depending on the pressure you apply to the trigger. A low pressure fires
>single shots, and higher pressure fires bursts. To me it would seem that
>requireing an action (even a simple one) to alter modes is silly.

You are referring to the Steyr AUG, I suppose? There are more weapons with
arrangements like this (the MG 34 machine gun fires semi-auto if you press
the top half of the trigger and full-auto if you press the bottom half), but
most simply use a switch you have to turn or slide into a different
position, which would be a Simple Action (not Free, that's only with a
smartgun) in my game. If I were you I'd assume all guns have a selector
_switch_, except for those which are noted as doing the "trigger-trick" :)


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