Assault Cannon has an ROF of 10 with the Super Storm (6) quality. This means that for every burst you're expending 60 rounds and every hit/DoS, to the maximum ROF, inflicts 6 hits to the location indicated.
That is not more complicated than?.....
Assault Cannon has RoF 10
Narkasis Broon said:
hmm, I think the distinction between rof and ammo expended is tenuous, as page 141 states rof tells you if it fires on full auto and how many rounds it expends when doing so.
but fair enough. so the maximum number of hits is 11 at 9 degrees of success?
True, it just requires some suspention of disbelief. A boltgun firing on auto is supposed to fire only 4 rounds, which is a little hard to believe. Somehow that's a full action, and so if firing two rounds on semi-auto? Hmmmm. The RoF rules are abstract and are really there to put a limiter on the number of hits you can inflict.
Remember that personal weapons typically fire in small, controlled bursts. You can go cyclic with a bolter but most of the rounds will be heading skyward due to muzzle rise. Astartes training and equipment dictates the most effective use.
How about a new weapon ability for the assault cannon? Inspired by the lightning claws
Fury : A weapon with this quality fires a volley of shots for each 'shot' expended hammering the enemy with firepower that cracks his defenses. For every Two degrees of sucess on the to hit roll add one point of damage to each hit scored.
Example: If an assault cannon firing on full auto scores 6 DOS after the opponent's dodge roll then the cannon will hit 7 times with each hit adding 3 points of damage on top of whatever is rolled.
Erring on the side of mediocrity with this idea, hence the 1 per 2.
I gave the Assault Cannon +1 Pen per shot hitting. Might be too much against vehicles though.
Alex
muzzyman1981 said:
Assault Cannon has an ROF of 10 with the Super Storm (6) quality. This means that for every burst you're expending 60 rounds and every hit/DoS, to the maximum ROF, inflicts 6 hits to the location indicated.
That is not more complicated than?.....
Assault Cannon has RoF 10
It is, but I never suggested that. I suggested keeping everything the same and just changing the fluff. It would still have a RoF 10 and the normal amount of ammunition, just each 'shot' would represent a lot more than one bullet.
I'd personally just slap the 'storm' quality on there too (although not increase the ammunition consumption) and increase the bonus for full auto to +40. It makes the weapon far better but not much more mechanically complex.