Multiple Rapid Autofire

[Armitage]

If you use the Rapid Autofire Skill to make two "Autofire Against Multiple Targets" attacks, against three hexes each, for example, does the -1 OCV penalty per hex apply to each attack or to both at once?

i.e. two attacks at -5 OCV (-2 OCV Rapid Autofire, -3 OCV firing into three hexes) or two attacks at -8 OCV (-2 OCV Rapid Autofire, -6 OCV firing into a total of six hexes).

[Steve Long]

Re: Multiple Rapid Autofire

 

The per-hex OCV penalty for using Rapid Autofire to shoot at two or more groups of multiple targets applies per group of targets; the penalty for one group does not carry over to or add with the penalty for another group. For example, if a character uses Rapid Autofire to fire two three-shot attacks over three hexes each, he suffers the basic -2 OCV for using Rapid Fire, then on each attack individually a -3 OCV penalty for covering three hexes, for a total of -5 OCV on each attack. The -3 penalty for the first three-hex burst does not carry over to the second (or vice-versa) to make it a -8 OCV attack.