Multiple attacks

[baldlea]

How do people deal with multiple attacks? We had a monster in our scenario driven game last week and all the towering beast could manage was maybe killing a single man each turn.

Not exactly Gor Gor, is it! I know Comstar house rules two attacks per combat for a Commander (to match their double-shoot) but surely some builds should be allowed multiple attacks.

[stroezie]

Why not treat it like a vehicle fiering its weapons (p.33), 2 weapon systems per shoot action, -1 per additional attack after the first. Super Heavies 4 weapon systems, -1 starts on the third.

[comstar]

Or just ram them or should that be trample!

[papabees]

Or give them a flame thrower but call it a tail/claw swipe. Let's you take out swathes at once.

[ypu]

I was considering this problem as well and the best I can think of right now would be to introduce "sweep" Autofire for close combat weapons. I think it would be the easiest and most balanced option but I have yet to playtest it.

[twogunsblazing]

Jul 18, 2013 23:35:11 GMT -5 baldlea said:

How do people deal with multiple attacks? We had a monster in our scenario driven game last week and all the towering beast could manage was maybe killing a single man each turn.

Not exactly Gor Gor, is it! I know Comstar house rules two attacks per combat for a Commander (to match their double-shoot) but surely some builds should be allowed multiple attacks.

Multiple Close Combat Attacks?

One of my Gruntz forces is a very heavily orientated close combat based force and it has large monsters that can cause great damage in close combat...so to get around this issue, I simply made up army special rules, simply declaring how many close combat attacks they get....so essentially, house ruling it is the way to go I think...

[inrepose]

Depends on the size of the monster, you could add multiple arms as seperate attacks and a body slam / bite. Follow the same rules for shooting with regard to hitting with bite + tail whip or whatever else you plan. I did once think about doing a more detailed advanced combat option for mecha to represent the sort of attacks you get in Pacific Rim like Trip, Back throw, arm lock, head lock, throw, punch, kick etc etc. Probably worth putting some thought into it because it could apply to monsters and mecha. It is a bit detailed for the basic game but could work if you were more focused on the hand to hand assault with big creatures and a sweeping attack against multiple Gruntz targets resulting in a full squad being put at risk could also work.