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Old 12-02-2008, 08:53 PM
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Originally Posted by copeab
They don't work that well. The soldiers firing through them have nowhere near the field of vision required for accurate fire. Additionally, vehicle motion wrecks weapon accuracy.

Using firing ports is about as useful as running through the jungle at nigfht randomly firing your gun full auto. You might accidentally hit something, but you are going to waste a lot of ammo in the process.
As a GM, I'm fine with anything that lets me separate my PCs from excess ammunition.

In Reflex, we model this by only allowing hip shots (the fastest but least accurate attacks) through firing ports. Vehicle movement is a separate penalty on top of the hip shot penalty, so accuracy drops off rapidly even with burst fire.

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