Suppressive Fire (trick)

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Suppressive fire is something that every gunman knows how to do - kind of. If your teeth aren't rattling in your head and your target isn't crying a little, you're not suppressing correctly.

Requires a ranged weapon with the Autofire and without the Slow-firing or Limited Ammo qualities
Activation: Weapon skill dd combat check, single target, Medium or weapon's Range, +1 Strain, Mind-affecting dependent

This attack deals half the damage of the weapon chosen, as Strain.
Additionally, the target must make a Fear check with Difficulty equal to this character's Ranks in Combat Mastery (minimum d) upgraded by ranks in Knowledge (Warfare). d may be spent on this Fear check to inflict the Staggered condition.

Before making a Suppressing Fire check, you may choose to add one of the modifiers from the table below:

Modifier	Effect	Cost
Trigger	May use this Trick with a weapon that does not have the Autofire quality.	+b
Focus Fire	+d to the Fear check.	+b
Fire Sweep	May spend aa to affect another target within Short Range of the most recently targeted.	+d
Tracking	If the target tries a Move or an Attack in the next Round, this character may make a combat check with this weapon as an Out-of-Turn Incidental just before that occurs. This attack deals Wounds and may spend t to negate the target's Move or Attack - thereby wasting the target's Maneouver/Action.	Upgrade Difficulty once