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From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: Smart Guns
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 12:43:55 +0100
Michael Orion Jackson said on 13:37/26 Sep 96...

> Smartguns also are helpful when you are spreading fire across a distance
> occupied by friendlies. I remember in 1st ed. that you had to roll to
> avoid hitting them if you didn't have a smartgun, but if you did have
> one, you automatically missed them.

No roll to avoid hitting them, BTB anyway. And the smartgun rule is still
in place in SRII. You just fire into a crowd and miss all the potential
targets you want to miss -- anyone remember the scene in Top Secret, where
the East Germans attack the French Resistance, and Chocolate Mousse opens
fire? :)

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