I remember in a Merc game, my PC shooting a 60mm mortar at a barracks.
- First shot? Over.
- 2nd shot? short.
- Other PCs: "Why are we waiting for this? Look, they're starting to come out of the barracks now! Let's open up and get in there!"
- Third shot? Right through the roof, adjacent to the front door, where the bad guys were arming and rushing for the door. Lots and lots of die-rolling, for damage and fragments and more damage.
- Me: "That's why we're waiting. Now go and collect their surrender."
I can think of another game, I was GM, where the PCs barrelled into an ambush, which had 120mm mortars covering the kill zone. That really spooked the PCs, and they drove away really fast, despite having some armor.
But yeah, most of the time, IF weapons, beyond grenade-launchers, weren't really used.
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My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
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