[Herr Brackhaus]

The Slivergun would be limited to 6 bullets per suppressive fire action, which means the area would be reduced by (20-6=12/2=6) 6 meters. But yes, that is a viable choice as long as your GM agrees to allow Suppressive Fire (or any of it's variants) with Burst Fire weapons.

[Rooks]

But if you have 3-4 combat turns per combat round with improved / wired reflexes / synaptic booster /move by wire (if it ever comes out) couldnt you declare you are suppressing fire all of those combat turns upping the area?

[Herr Brackhaus]

*sighs*
Rooks, Suppressive Fire specifically says it lasts until the end of the Combat Turn. You're thinking of Initiative Passes within a Combat Turn; and yes, you could theoretically do that, but you would move the area each time, not overlap.

Having 4 Initiative Passes is not exactly trivial by the way. To get 4 passes you need an Initiative Score of 31 or more. With a maximum initiative dice of 5 you can at most get 30 if you roll all sixes and you're more likely to be rolling in the 10 to 25 range. To reliably get 31 or more you'd need a combined Reaction and Intuition score of 13 or 14, which means hardcapping Intuition at 6 and getting some Reaction boosters to get Reaction up to 7 or 8. Getting that 5th Initiative Dice isn't trivial either...

[Rooks]

Short burst is 3 bullets complex long burst is 6 full auto is able to but only fire 6 bullets as a simple and 10 bullets but suppression is 20 which consists of a combination of controlled and fully automatic bursts so how can a gun capable of burst fire not be able to shoot 20 bullets for suppression but a full auto gun is able to fire double the amount of bullets for a complex action

[KarmaInferno]

Possibly because the writer might not have been all that conversant about how real life suppressing fire works and just assumed it was hosing down the area with autofire.

Or maybe game balance. I dunno.



-k