If I understand correctly, when I am in melee with an enemy I can only shoot him with a pistol.

But can I semi-burst (or full-burst) him in melee, if my pistol has these options?

I seem to remember you could only single shot in melee...

Is there any particular reason you don't just look in the rulebook to find out?

To answer your question, I don't recall seeing anything saying you couldn't fire on semi or full auto.

I did look in the rulebook, but i also cannot find anything about that. We played a lot of Dark Heresy, and i remember back then we were only allowed single shots in melee with pistols.

But i can't seem to find this rule in Rogue Trader, that's why I'm asking the forums.

Thanks for the help!

I've always let people use semi or full auto. They don't get any bonuses at all when in Melee though.

There was indeed an official ruling limiting pistols to single-shots only in melee.

This was a rules question answered by the devs, and posted to all current boards (at the time, DH, RT, DW and BC).

This rule was changed with Only War, where it is quite explicit that you CAN use any fire mode in melee, and in the DH 2 Beta this was also possible.

Personally I would allow it, but I'd also change the general combat actions and their modifiers to the ones used in BC and OW. Otherwise ranger attacks in melee become too powerful compared to the melee equivalents.

There was indeed an official ruling limiting pistols to single-shots only in melee.

This was a rules question answered by the devs, and posted to all current boards (at the time, DH, RT, DW and BC).

so, as of today, the OFFICIAL ruling is that, indeed, you can only shoot single shots with a pistol in melee in a Rogue Trader game?

Yes, that is indeed the case.

Here is the thread from the DH forum, where the ruling was posted. There were "sister" threads in the other game forums, but I haven't kept them. You'll have to google it

Yes, that is indeed the case.

Here is the thread from the DH forum, where the ruling was posted. There were "sister" threads in the other game forums, but I haven't kept them. You'll have to google it

this is great help, many thanks!

The general consensus seems to be that allowing pistols to be shot on semi or full auto in melee is very unbalancing UNLESS you switch over to ethe BC/OW mechanics (or otherwise remove the accuracy benefits for those firing modes).

The general consensus seems to be that allowing pistols to be shot on semi or full auto in melee is very unbalancing UNLESS you switch over to ethe BC/OW mechanics (or otherwise remove the accuracy benefits for those firing modes).

I agree with General Consensus here