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Old 05-22-2009, 08:12 AM   #5
SuedodeuS
 
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Default Re: Shotgun - Choke / Scattering?

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Originally Posted by OldSam View Post
If default for shotguns is that choke is open, then I wonder where are rules for the scattering-effect? Or is it really assumed that there is no significant spread at all?

Anybody knows how the official perspective is on this?
Not sure about the official perspective, but the current rules work decently well as a gameable abstraction. The alternative would be to write out the maximum number of hits on creatures of each SM at various ranges, give the ranges the correspond to each amount of spread, and treat shotgun blasts as something like an Area Effect Bombardment. That really just makes shotguns too complicated.
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