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Combining multiple actions at different speeds for multiple combatants


robertperry904@glbb.jp

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Who would take president in actions by multiple characters that fall under another's speed.

Ex: four characters are in a vehicle and the vehicle is speeding past another vehicle that some wish to attack in both ranged and hand to hand. One character is driving/piloting the vehicle. The vehicle has a speed listed as 3. The drivers speed is 4, and the other passengers speeds range from 3 to 5.

Now the attack on the other vehicle wants to happen as it is being passed by the other.

Now I am reasonably sure that some will need to hold actions until the vehicle gets to the correct point of passing. On which speed do we engage the attack on and whose speed is the vehicle moved on.

The vehicle speed is slower than that of the driver, so would the drivers speed slow to the vehicle speed and maybe give him an additional action, or does the vehicle speed get dismissed in favor of the drivers. How would you determine this if the vehicle were say a horse?

I figure the ones riding along will have to hold and time there actions but because there are such widely differing speeds which speed would all the characters need to focus their actions and speed around.

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Everyone involved -- the vehicles, the drivers, the passengers -- act on their own SPDs. So there's no order of precedence here (though the SPD and velocity at which the vehicles can move is an important factor). The passengers could attack as the trailing car approaches the lead car, for example, though they might suffer a Range Modifier if the vehicles are too far apart.

 

The issue of Vehicle SPD compared to driver's SPD is covered in the basic Vehicle Combat rules on 6E2 194-95. If you're interested in more advanced/complex vehicular combat rules, including special Combat Maneuvers for vehicular combat, you can find them in The Ultimate Vehicle. (That's a 5th Edition book but the rules are generally the same for 6E; you just have to change hexes/inches to meters when necessary.)

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