Combat Maneuvers for Firearms

[Malakor]

I mentioned this in the Arms & Equipment thread below, but I thought it may get lost, so I'm giving it a topic of it's own.

Apparently there are no CM's for the firearms in the A&E book, so I was wondering, does anyone have any suggestions?

I'm thinking about working up a Turn of the (19th) Century, Victorian Era game using RQII to run at some point, so firearms will be a distinct factor.

Thanks for any thoughts you might have and share on this.

 

[almightygm]

I could envision a Fast Reload one (as in my additional CM thread), Blow Through where the bullet goes through one target and strikes a nearby enemy, using Bleed from the regular list, In The Groove where the next shot is at +10%, Fear and Cover where an ally of the person just shot must make a Resilience roll or dive prone out of fear, losing their next CA.

All I can think up on short notice.

 

[Malakor]

Excellent Ideas

Thank you kindly AlmightyGM

 

[Simulacrum]

Presuming you mean turn of 19th/20th

Yep, through and through is a good one and an exit wound presents difficulties to first aid; an impale result will have nasty additional consequences as a bullet is not easy to extract of course; you might also have an allowance for a bullet tumble and bouncing around inside the body, dealing an additional dice damage to a second location; and hydrostatic shock for a small calibre high velocity bullet, causing a resilience check to avoid incapacity for even relatively minor location damage.

At the same period many native troops would still be using obsolete large calibre black powder longarms such as a martini henry, which causes big nasty wounds, and others might still be firing smooth bore muzzle-loaders, and these projectiles would carry significant debris into a wound with serious chances of infection for the unfortunate target.

Bear in mind for turn of the century modern european armies are already equipped with the same sort of weapons used in WW1, using smokeless powder in a precision manufactured brass jacketed round - the Lee Metford (from 1888) is hardly diferent to the Lee Enfield in service right through to Korea and beyond.