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Old 07-18-2009, 11:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Marc View Post
Here's my interpretation, trying not to present a too much contrived modification from the v2 or v2.2 set of rules:

Blind fire:
-Non-effective beyond the short range of the weapon.
-At short range, only roll for danger zone, accordingly to the rules and with one additional level of difficulty, adjusting the number of effective bullets that reach the target.

So, consider a character with Small Arms (Rifle):12 and Strenght: 6, performing blind fire from a corner and firing 2 burst with an M249SAW (ROF 10) at short range. He/she or the GM if the character knows nothing about the target area, must designate roughly an area 10m wide (max.) where to send the burst (the danger zone described in the set of rules). Accordingly to the rules, if we consider only the danger zone, (half the bullets that missed the target), you reduce the bullets in the area by half (10 bullets). Total recoil of 6 gives you no penalties for Strenght/Recoil. One level of difficulty higher with a ROF 10 weapon and you loss 3 more bullets. 7 bullets reach the area. Then roll for hits (Impossible, so 3 or less). Because of the danger zone, you must try to distribute the hits among all the possible targets, repeating target only if the number of hits obtained exceed the number of possible targets in the danger zone.
That is probably similar to how I would rule it. Shooting at a target that is obscured, say by a corn-field, is +1 difficulty according to v2.2, and surely it's going to be as hard or harder than that. I would personally discourage it and make it +2 difficulty - so in the above example 4 bullet rolls out of the original 10; but that's that my take on it.
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