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+====== Suppressive Fire ======
+Suppressive Fire turns a firearm or other rapid-firing weapon into an area effect attack. It trades accuracy for a hail of ammo to keep the enemies’ heads down.
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+//**Example:** Gabe fires a minigun at a group of rampaging insectoids. He places a Medium Blast Template over five of them and rolls his Shooting die and a Wild die. He has the Rock and Roll! Edge so he ignores Recoil but still subtracts 2 from his total for Medium Range. He ends up with a 9 on his Shooting roll.
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+Two of the insectoids were behind a large rock and get Medium Cover. That subtracts 4 from the total so that’s a single success—they’re Distracted.
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+Three of the targets were out in the open so they’re hit with a raise. Gabe can hit up to five given his weapon’s RoF, so all three take damage.
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+The Rate of Fire of 5 means each “shot” is 40 bullets, multiplied by three for Suppressive Fire. That’s 120 bullets, which is why miniguns come loaded with lots of ammo!//
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+A weapon must be able to fire at least as rapidly as a revolver and can’t require reloading in between shots.
+Suppressive Fire uses three times the usual number of bullets for its [[Rate of Fire]] and always incurs [[Recoil]] regardless of the weapon’s original Rate of Fire (the Rock and Roll! Edge, bipods, and tripods negate Recoil as usual).
+To make the attack, the shooter places a Medium Blast Template on the tabletop and makes a Shooting roll (a single Shooting die regardless of Rate of Fire—RoF comes into Maximum Casualties, below.) Figure Range, Illumination, Recoil, etc., as usual, to the center of the template.
+Next compare the total to each target in the template and consider any modifiers that apply to each ([[Cover]], the Dodge Edge, the deflection power, etc.). Success means the target is [[Distracted]], and a raise means he’s actually hit (no bonus damage is possible from Suppressive Fire).
+===== Maximum Casualties =====
+ Every target under the template can be Distracted, but it can only cause damage to a number of targets equal to the weapon’s Rate of Fire. The attacker chooses which targets are hit among his possible choices.
+{{tag> actions}}