Hastening during combat

[nats]

Can you hasten more than once during a single combat?

I know that the rulebook says a character cannot hasten more than once. But at the start of that paragraph it says that each character can choose whether to hasten or not at the start of each round. I was wondering whether the rules are inferring that you cannot hasten more than once a round but you can more than once a combat?

I ask because it seems sensible to me that a character could, if he wished, choose to hasten every combat round thereby getting higher initiative but lower task rolls each time ie he would be firing more quickly than usual taking less time over it every round - similar to panic fire. I dont see any reason why you couldn't do this?

Anyone?

 

[Jak Nazryth]

That only came up once in my combats, and it was an NPC to hastened to get off a shot at my PC's before they could escape through a bulkhead door. Multiple hastens yet to come up though. I'll just keep it a game time decision.

 

[Stainless]

My take on Traveller combat can be found here;

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B7XM_c-luqpgYTE1NGI0YWUtNDAzZS00NzE3LWJkY2YtYjk3NjNhZDVhZjBh&authkey=CI_20NwK&hl=en_GB&authkey=CI_20NwK

I've interpreted the rules such that you can hasten at the start of each combat ROUND.

 

[SSWarlock]

I've interpreted the rules such that you can hasten at the start of each combat ROUND.

Same here.