hand foot major wound knockdown stunning

[LemmingLord]

This is another GURPS special thing you don't see in other systems. On the oen hand, yes, sure, many people thwacked in the hand are going to recoil in pain... but they are more likely to be stunned (one second), whimper (one second), look in shock (two seconds), realize how much pain they are in (another second) and then slump to the floor....

Of course in a system where every second of every combat has every person doing as much as humanly possible in one second this seems like a very rude thing to do someone's character, so instead they just have you get stunned and go prone... rather than do nothing for four seconds and THEN be knocked to the ground.

While there are many documented cases of soldiers being shot and NOT being put down, there are also plenty of people getting shot and freaking out doing nothing useful or worse, going into shock!!