Ultimately the rapid fire rules are system abstraction to avoid having to roll for each projectile, as such it has some odd results (v.close range is one, long range is another).
This compounds when you move away from people firing man portable FA weapons and move towards vehicle mounted weapons with high Rof (what the Rcl stat represents and how it applies)
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Originally Posted by Kfireblade
Alright, so in real life take a man on a stationary position firing say a minigun using tracer ammo at a car sized target. He may miss at first but once he gets on target it would seem he puts basically his entire ROF into the target, and continues to do so for as long as he continues to fire. In GURPS you can never actually hit more then your skill at best, and can't keep firing holding your weapon on a point of aim after you find it. So it seems it is a bit unrealistic. any way to handle it better?
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Originally Posted by trooper6
Did you check the section "Rapid-Fiare vs. Close Stationary Targets" on B408? It notes that in those situations if you make your roll, half your bullets his, if you make it by the recoil number all of them hit.
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What trooper6 said (and Sir_pudding) said
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Originally Posted by Kfireblade
Another question. So laser weapons. Lasers move literally at the speed of light, so it seems to me that if you fire full ROF in one second, every hit should land at very nearly the same point, so should one hit with a laser not usually mean they all hit?
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It depends it looks like your assuming the firing mechanism cycles at the speed of light as well as the shot travelling at it as well. If there is the same kind of delay as there is with guns than your aim or target may shift in the meantime
However the lack of physical recoil and very high travel speed of the shots partly gives you the very high Acc and Rcl 1 of laser weapons. Which tends to mean you get more hits in Rapid fire