GM NOTE. By firing with the second rather than first finger on the trigger, the action can be worked without taking your hand off the gun. When the bullet has fired, turn the hand so the first finger lifts and slides back the bolt, then thumb the bolt forward. This allows someone with Rifle skill 5+ to get ROF 2 from a bolt action rifle, but with a -3 penalty to hit.

The breach is opened by cranking a lever, which ejects the spent brass and loads a new round.

GM NOTE . The ROF of a lever action rifle is 1 if the users REF or Rifle skill is 5 or less. If either is 6 +, they can fire at ROF 2, but with -2 to hit. If either is 10+, they can fire at ROF 3, but with -4 to hit This represents them hammering out shots as fast as they can work the lever, so accuracy is lost. Also, the user can load bullets into the magazine while firing , using an average Ref + Rifle check. Fumble and they jam the gun. Pass and they load one round. Beat difficulty 25 and they can load 2

The force of the bullet being fired is used to eject the casing and to chamber the next round. The first round has to be chambered manually by cocking the weapon, and the gun fires at one rate of fire only. A Dud round will stop the weapon firing and will have to be cleared manually by working the breach open and closed

The motor action uses an electrical motor to work the gun’s action, loading, firing and ejecting the rounds at a set rate that can be varied simply by altering the motor speed. Dud rounds are ejected by the action without an interruption in firing

Ammunition comes in various types. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.

The normal round, a self contained brass tube holding primer, propellant and bullet together in a waterproof unit. Readily available world wide due to military oversupply and mass production

Caseless ammunition has the bullet embedded in a block of solid propellant, forming a square block. the round is fed point first down into a rotating breach which rotates it through 90 degrees to put it inline with the barrel, fires the round and then turns 90 degrees back to take a new round. As the round has No case, nothing is left after firing, so half of the load-eject-reload cycle can be ignored. This makes it a lot faster on full auto. (ROF +10). As the ammo is smaller and packs together better the clip size is approximately 50% larger (50 rds instead of 30)

The TROUND is a Triangular cross section round, which is loaded vertically into a rotating cylinder. This cylinder strips the first round from the magazine and brings it up in line with the barrel, where it is fired electrically or by a normal firing pin. Gas can be tapped off from the round to spin the cylinder, or the cylinder can be powered by an electric motor. Gas versions need to be cocked by hand and only have one rate of fire Electric versions automatically take-up a round on loading and can be set to fire at any rate of fire by altering the cylinders speed.
1/3/30 (gas) or 1/3/ 5 to 30 (electric)
Ammo is more compact, giving 30% more in a clip (i.e. 40 rds rather than 30 rds)

The binary liquid propellant weapon uses two liquids that are explosive when combined as the propellant. on there own, each liquid is flammable but safe. Only when mixed are they dangerously explosive (binary agent) The weapons magazine contains only the bullet, with no casings. These are loaded into the breach, and then fine sprays of the two liquids are injected into the chamber behind the bullet and ignited by a spark unit, similar to an internal combustion engine. The resulting explosion propels the bullet. Nothing needs to be ejected, but reloading uses canisters for the two liquids and a clip of rounds plus a new battery, and the spark unit must be cleaned regularly to stop it fouling
1/3/25
Ammunition is very compact. 200% increase in magazine size (100 rds)
The reload cycle is the weapons real problem. The two liquids need to be reloaded regularly (varies by weapon, usually every 10 clips) And the battery has to be recharged regularly, and the spark unit cleaned

GM NOTE The Binary action also produces a BIG muzzle flash as the liquids ignite, and on autofire this is very noticeable, especially at night

Electro Chemical Thermal Propellants use a high voltage pulse to plasmarise the propellant when the gun fires. This produces an explosion of higher power than a conventional propellant, but also produces a lot of recoil and a BIG plume of superheated plasma from the barrel. This plume can be several metres long for large calibre weapons, and can ignite anything flammable (and do D6 burn damage )
Damage +2D6, Rate of Fire One, Cost x5

High powered airguns are coming back into fashion after the introduction of magnetic resonance imagers that can detect explosive propellants. They use a composite plastic barrel and a high pressure air supply to accelerate the round. While they are quieter in operation, they normally cannot carry enough compressed gas for battlefeild operations (an average bottle holds 30 to 50 shots for rifle size)
Damage is as normal

‘Railguns’ or ’Coilguns’

Subsonic
D6 becomes D4, D10 becomes D6
With special subsonic ammunition, damage is the same as normal propellants

Conventional Firing
becomes D10, D10 becomes 2D6

Overload
A dangerous operation, as the bullet is travelling fast enough to plasmarise the air inside the barrel, and the stresses of firing can buckle the magnets, causing it to misfire
D6 becomes 2D6 , D10 becomes 2D10
reliability lowered one class

ROF 1 / 3 / 20

ROF 2 / 3 / 40

Weapons that can overload are usually Special forces, custom made or modified by the user.

Depending on the action of your weapon, the Amount of rounds it holds varies.

Most modern weapons use clips that hold 20 or more rounds, allowing the weapon to be fully reloaded in one action. Weapons with internal magazines use a tube mag which feeds rounds into the action, and have to be reloaded one round at a time. (one action to load 2-3 rounds into the magazine)