Pinning (Dragonstar)

Development

This rule is under development and is not in use!

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Rule

Troopers under heavy fire become disoriented and shocked. Pinning is the firearms equivalent of flanking and is caused by:

• Fire from opposite fire arcs in the same round.
• Inside burts radius of Barrage Weapons, such as mortar and artiller fire. Artillery counts, hand grenades and fireballs do not.
• Inside SupressiveFire arc.

Pinned troopers are easier to hit. The attacker gain a +2 bonus to hit. This does not stack with melee flanking bonus (it's the same thing, caused by ranged fire). When attacking a pinned enemy, you can use SneakAttack.

The target does not have to be hit or injured in order to be pinned.

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Notes

The term Pinning is taken from WH40K. In this game, it is a morale roll caused by sniper rifle fire and barrage (large area effect weapons). Note to self: Check WH40K for rules fluff.

We could call it Flanking Fire, but I like the idea that troops are pinned by heavy artillery, even if they are not actually injured.

--Urban

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