GURPS Tactical Shooting

Tzeentch · 02-10-2011, 03:17 PM

-- The book is totally sweet. Should be in the library of any gamer who wants some realism in their game (and not just GURPS).

sir_pudding · 02-10-2011, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Tzeentch

-- The book is totally sweet. Should be in the library of any gamer who wants some realism in their game (and not just GURPS).

Yeah, and it's got a number of rules that are applicable to any realistic combat, not just firefights. It's looking pretty good.

Ulzgoroth · 02-10-2011, 03:46 PM

Page 21 offers what look like novel suppression rules (making people keep their heads down) and better Surprise rules for ambushes as opposed to the 'suddenly a fight breaks out' that the Basic Surprise rules seem more tuned to.

Comedian · 02-10-2011, 03:52 PM

Just downloaded it, if only I had another week to absorb all of the new stuff. So far, I really really like what I've read.

Ulzgoroth · 02-10-2011, 04:00 PM

Puzzled by the mechanics of corner turning on P24. It seems (due to the way it deals with sequence of actions) to be treating the angular search as not happening in combat time, except that it also talks in terms of Steps, Waits, and Move and Attack at one point.

DouglasCole · 02-10-2011, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

Puzzled by the mechanics of corner turning on P24. It seems (due to the way it deals with sequence of actions) to be treating the angular search as not happening in combat time, except that it also talks in terms of Steps, Waits, and Move and Attack at one point.

can you amplify on what's confusing? It seems to me that you take at minimum the four single Step and Wait maneuvers depicted in Figure 4, p23. If you see someone as revealed by your step (plain sight) or something they do reveals themselves around a corner (you make a skill roll or win a Contest depending on what's going on) you may convert the Wait into an attack. If they do something first, like step out, they trigger your Wait, etc.

sir_pudding · 02-10-2011, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by DouglasCole

can you amplify on what's confusing? It seems to me that you take at minimum the four single Step and Wait maneuvers

Probably that there isn't technically any such maneuver (but there ought to be).

jacobmuller · 02-12-2011, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by DouglasCole

can you amplify on what's confusing? It seems to me that you take at minimum the four single Step and Wait maneuvers depicted in Figure 4, p23. If you see someone as revealed by your step (plain sight) or something they do reveals themselves around a corner (you make a skill roll or win a Contest depending on what's going on) you may convert the Wait into an attack. If they do something first, like step out, they trigger your Wait, etc.

Yay! A new maneuver is born. Or if you take Attack, then you're Step-Attacking, but if no-one is there you don't shoot?

johndallman · 11-05-2019, 03:22 AM

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sir_pudding · 02-10-2011, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

Page 21 offers what look like novel suppression rules (making people keep their heads down)

Take a look at Cool Under Fire on page 34 for another reason to worry about suppression fire.

02-10-2011, 03:17 PM	#1
Tzeentch Join Date: Aug 2004	Re: GURPS Tactical Shooting -- The book is totally sweet. Should be in the library of any gamer who wants some realism in their game (and not just GURPS).

02-10-2011, 03:46 PM	#3
Ulzgoroth Join Date: Jul 2008	Re: GURPS Tactical Shooting Page 21 offers what look like novel suppression rules (making people keep their heads down) and better Surprise rules for ambushes as opposed to the 'suddenly a fight breaks out' that the Basic Surprise rules seem more tuned to. __________________ I don't know any 3e, so there is no chance that I am talking about 3e rules by accident.

02-10-2011, 03:52 PM	#4
Comedian Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Nowhere, MI	Re: GURPS Tactical Shooting Just downloaded it, if only I had another week to absorb all of the new stuff. So far, I really really like what I've read.

02-10-2011, 04:00 PM	#5
Ulzgoroth Join Date: Jul 2008	Re: GURPS Tactical Shooting Puzzled by the mechanics of corner turning on P24. It seems (due to the way it deals with sequence of actions) to be treating the angular search as not happening in combat time, except that it also talks in terms of Steps, Waits, and Move and Attack at one point. __________________ I don't know any 3e, so there is no chance that I am talking about 3e rules by accident.

11-05-2019, 03:22 AM	#9
johndallman Night Watchman Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Cambridge, UK	Re: GURPS Tactical Shooting Rosie reported as a spammer. __________________ The Path of Cunning. Indexes: DFRPG Characters, Advantage of the Week, Disadvantage of the Week, Skill of the Week, Techniques.