Critical hits and autofire

[dsatow]

Just wondering if we are doing critical hits and autofire correctly.

 

Say you have an OCV 8 against a DCV 3 target. You fire your SMG against them and roll to hit with a 6.

 

This means you hit all 5 times. How many times would the autofire critically hit?

 

Currently, I have been doing autofire critical hits such that two bullets would critically hit (the 6 and 8) and the other 3 would be normal hits.

[Steve Long]

Re: Critical hits and autofire

 

The critical hit rules on 6E2 118 are optional rules, and therefore whether to use them, and if so how, is up to the GM. In most cases I suspect most GMs won’t worry about critical hits for Autofire attacks against single targets, since there’s already a built-in reward for rolling low in that situation: the character hits with a lot of his shots (possibly all of them). If the GM prefers, he can devise a way to determine which of the Autofire hits do maximum damage (such as “half of them do” or “any hit that occurs once the “countdown” reaches the critical hit threshhold”).