Hand attacks, Strength and advantages

[Ninja-Bear]

I have 6th Basic. I am wondering though. If I by an advantage for hand attack, say auto fire. Do I:

 

a) Assume any strength that I use with the hand attack is automatically covered. (I don't have to buy any advantage on my strength.)

 

Also buy autofire for my strength, and just ignore the rule that any power that has an advantage, you must always use the advantage.

 

Thanks for responding, and I enjoy the book!

[Steve Long]

Re: Hand attacks, Strength and advantages

 

You're delving into one aspect of the HERO rules that can get a bit complex sometimes, which is why it's not covered in the BR -- the full rules you want are on 6E2 99-102. Without going into all those details, the easiest thing for you to do in this case is think of the *HA* as the "base damage," then add STR to it at a reduced rate to account for the Advantage. Instead of every 5 points of STR adding +1d6, make it +7.5 STR for every +1d6 and you'll be pretty close.