Flashing Steel: Firearm ranges.

[Gracchus Armisurplus]

For anyone that's played a game or two using Ganesha Game's Flashing Steel rules, can you explain how the ranges for firearms work? Each type of firearm has a range listed (short, medium or long) but then also has modifiers which are applied in each 'range band'.

So a musket for instance is (from memory):

+2 at the first range band.
+2 and the second range band.
+1 at the third range band.
+0 at the fourth range band.

If the weapons range is medium, then what are the range bands? Are they just quarters of whatever the weapon range is?

[fusilierdan]

All distances and ranges are measured with three measurement sticks labelled Short (75mm), Medium (120mm) or Long (180mm).

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[theoldschool]

Just to expand a little. The modifiers you have shown are for a light musket or arquebus, which has a medium range and four bands.

The maximum range for the musket is 4 (the number of bands) x the medium measuring 'stick'. In effect:

+2 if the target is within 1or 2 x medium range 'sticks'
+1 if the target is in the third medium 'stick'
+0 for targets within the fourth 'stick'

[fusilierdan]

Thanks for that. I hadn't seen it in the rules. I would have done something different.

[Gracchus Armisurplus]

Just to expand a little. The modifiers you have shown are for a light musket or arquebus, which has a medium range and four bands.

The maximum range for the musket is 4 (the number of bands) x the medium measuring 'stick'. In effect:

+2 if the target is within 1or 2 x medium range 'sticks'
+1 if the target is in the third medium 'stick'
+0 for targets within the fourth 'stick'

Aha! Now it makes sense! I pored over the rules many, many times and saw no reference to that being how weapon ranges work.