Medium repeaters and heavy E-web repeaters.. How long??

[garhkal]

For those of you who have had Imperial forces use either of these 2 weapon systems, how long have you made it take for the stormies to set it up (assuming they were not already in place)?

How often HAVE you had them show up in a game, and did they actually shoot anyone?
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[cheshire]

I had some guard towers with E-Webs set up once. Though the enemies were largely aiming for the speeders the escaping on. It just made more tactical sense. Once you incapacitate the vehicle, then the characters on it will stay in range longer, and give a better chance of a clean kill.

I think that we had an issue with a subsequent speeder crash, some character injuries, and other (healthier) players dragging the wounded under some sort of cover.

Players went about the rest of the time very smart and nobody died. Some of them needed medical attention, but they lived.
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[Naaman]

For what its worth, a heavy machine gun in real life can be dismounted from a vehicle, and set up ready to fire in Two minutes. Though I personally have been able to do it (as a member of a crew of two) in under a minute.

[CRMcNeill]

As far as Medium Repeaters, I apply a -1D penalty (in addition to any MAPs) for moving and firing in the same round. This represents the bulky and cumbersome nature of the weapon. Stronger characters, like Wookiees and similar species, can waive this penalty due to their strength.
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[Naaman]

I like that rule. We've done something similar, allowing larger species such as wookiees to wield bigger weapons without penalty.

[jmanski]

makes sense to me
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[garhkal]

[CRMcNeill]

[garhkal]

What of those harnesses like we saw in the Alien's film for Vasques and that other "Gunner guy" wore? WOuld they lessen or increase MAPs and such?
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[Naaman]

I would say they dont affect MAPs per se, but they give a fire control bonus. With a sophisticated enough targeting system, perhaps even multiple weapons could engage different targets with one action.

[CRMcNeill]

[garhkal]

[CRMcNeill]

Not if it is properly designed.

My thinking was that a medium repeater, while not being big or heavy enough to penalize the movement of a character carrying it, was sufficiently large and bulky to be awkward to fire quickly, and that ideal use would require the gunner to set himself and steady the weapon before firing. The primary advantage of a harness would be to take all of the weapon's weight off the character's arms, allowing the arm muscles to be used solely for aiming and firing.
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The CRMcNeill Stat/Rule Index

[garhkal]

As a side question. Do you allow light, medium and heavy repeaters to be set to stun? I know many do for the light repeater but imo both the medium and heavy are too BIG/powerful to get stun settings.
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[griff]

See riot gun (tripod mounted has only a stun setting).
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