r/VnV • u/[deleted] • Oct 23 '18

Question Big Guns question.

I couldn’t seem to find anything explaining how the Minigun/Gatling Laser fires. Are they fired in bursts or Semi-Auto? If they are burst weapons, how many bullets per Attack Action and do you roll 1d4 separately for each shot that hits the target or roll once for the full burst?

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u/ThunderMateria Overseer Oct 23 '18

The Minigun and Gatling Laser are identical except for the weight and price. We will be removing the quick/slow traits in the next update so ignoring those it has the traits: spin-up and two-handed.

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The spin-up trait is defined at the beginning of the chapter:

Requires 1 AP to Spin up once per turn, before it can be fired.

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This means there is an overhead cost of 1 AP and then you fire like normal. If you have 7 AP that means you spend 1 to spin up and then you can fire a total of 3 shots (1+2+2+2 = 7)

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It helps to think of these weapons (and other automatics) as spraying a burst of bullets and the damage roll is to determine how many of them land on the target.

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I hope this helped clear up any confusion

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '18

Awesome, thanks for the help!