Recoil for RoF 1 weapons
 

Is there any point to listing Recoil for RoF weapons? Is it used for anything other than rapid fire?

Re: Recoil for RoF 1 weapons
 

Potential techniques that increase RoF, such as fanning.

Re: Recoil for RoF 1 weapons
 

Occasionally an RoF 1 weapon might be possible to fire at a higher RoF.

Or if it's rcl 1 that might trigger some special cases? Or if you've got detailed microgravity ops rules, which I thought I saw somewhere but can't remember.

But failing that, no. There's certainly no point for weapons that are also 1 shot and thus cannot possibly be fired again in the same turn. (If you built a version that wasn't one shot, it would potentially not have the same rcl, so that doesn't give it a use.)

Re: Recoil for RoF 1 weapons
 

I mean, you could have an antagonist - or even a protagonist, provided the GM came up with the right cost for it (or waited for the 27th and bought Meta-Tech, which should have relevant rules) - who had an ensorcelled firearm that had infinite ammunition and was able to fire multiple times per second but was otherwise identical to a Derringer, musket, or whatever, meaning even single shot weapons that normally take multiple seconds to reload have a use for a Rcl stat.

Re: Recoil for RoF 1 weapons
 

i mean you could have a bolt action just like an archer who can do quick draw for the arrow roll for putting the arrow on the bow at minus -6 and and minus 10 to fire in Realism games or 6 in cinematic.
Racking the bolt could be a minus 6?
you could potentially do this with a needle rifle if you have someone loading it for you.

Re: Recoil for RoF 1 weapons
 

Or you could buy Extra Attack and bolt a underbarrel grenade launcher to it.

Sure it's not going to matter often, but anybody building a weapon table is probably using some sort of algorithm that will spit out a value for anything, so why not include it on the table just in case?

Re: Recoil for RoF 1 weapons
 

I see no one has mentioned personal scale weapons with multiple barrrels yet. Mounted weapons more than 1 to a turret are a similar case.

Re: Recoil for RoF 1 weapons
 

Rcl wouldn't factor into either of these - the first uses Rapid Strike, the second Extra Attack. Rcl only comes into play when you're resolving multiple shots with a single roll.

Re: Recoil for RoF 1 weapons
 

Rcl stats are produced for RoF 1 weapons because it's not much work, and rules may come along that need them. That, as best I remember, was the answer the last time this came up.

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Also, there's that space in the weapons table anyway, so you don't really save anything by leaving it blank. Is there a flinch rule in 4e? I remember something like that but I think it was 3e, gave inexperienced shooters a penalty equal to Rcl.