Grappled & Ranged Attacks: Martial Arts vs. Tactical Shooting vs. Technical Grappling

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by DouglasCole

First: read the rule, and please quote it when you post these little tidbits, since you seem to have left out the key bit:

So the key is: GRAPPLE HIM BACK. If you can lower his Trained ST of his grapple, you can shoot better.

Is the grapple back strategy even viable? Doing it with the arms will mean you can't do a ranged attack since now your arms are occupied; doing it with legs would give you a very uncomfortable posture, or even an outright fall; doing it with teeth is at ½ST and is difficult in terms of allowed targets (and thus penalties to grapple).