Suppressive Fire (trick)
Suppressive Fire (trick)
Suppressive fire is something that every gunman knows how to do - kind of. If your teeth aren't rattling in your head and your target isn't crying a little, you're not suppressing correctly.
Requires a ranged weapon with the Autofire and without the Slow-firing or Limited Ammo qualities
Activation: Weapon skill dd combat check, single target, Medium or weapon's Range, +1 Strain, Mind-affecting dependent
This attack deals half the damage of the weapon chosen, as Strain.
Additionally, the target must make a Fear check with Difficulty equal to this character's Ranks in Combat Mastery (minimum d) upgraded by ranks in Knowledge (Warfare). d may be spent on this Fear check to inflict the Staggered condition.
Before making a Suppressing Fire check, you may choose to add one of the modifiers from the table below:
| Modifier | Effect | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Trigger | May use this Trick with a weapon that does not have the Autofire quality. | +b |
| Focus Fire | +d to the Fear check. | +b |
| Fire Sweep | May spend aa to affect another target within Short Range of the most recently targeted. | +d |
| Tracking | If the target tries a Move or an Attack in the next Round, this character may make a combat check with this weapon as an Out-of-Turn Incidental just before that occurs. This attack deals Wounds and may spend t to negate the target's Move or Attack - thereby wasting the target's Maneouver/Action. | Upgrade Difficulty once |
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