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Combat, a very specific part of Conflict Resolution, requires a bit of an expansion, due to the style and tone of Excommunicatis.

The rules work the same as in the basic Fate Rules, though the Conflict Environment may have some extra influence, until we get to the Resolving Attacks part. Here the rules diverge.

Resolving Attacks

A successful attack lands a hit equivalent to its shift value on a target. If the target is wearing armour, or the user is using a weapon (or both), the armour value first gets deducted from the shift value + the weapon's shift value. That's the basis, the type of damage and the type of Armour can have an influence:

Damage Types

Most damage is counted as normal damage. Armour works to prevent that type of damage. Subtract the armour from the shift value of the weapon + shift value of the hit. The leftover is the amount of stress dealt.

Piercing damage

Piercing damage, or "Armour-penetrating" damage has a rating. If the rating is as high or higher as the armour, ignore the armour. If it's lower, subtract the rating from the armour, then substract the armour from the shift value (piercing weapons allow you to bypass armour protection, not do more damage). Generally Piercing weapons generally do less damage than normal weapons of the same type, assume at least a shift less per AP rating (with exceptions of course, usually military weaponry like Sniper Rifles).

Impact Damage

Falling, explosions, and heavy blunt objects tend to do Impact damage. Generally its much harder to defend against this, due to the laws of physics. Most armour does not or has very limited protection against impact damage. Luckily doing impact damage means that the thing or person doing it has to be pretty close and tends to be very noticeable.

Other types of damage

Like Fire, Acid,... tend to have a rating, and unless the armour has a protective rating against that type of damage, they will do full damage regardless of your armour.

Weaknesses and Resistance

Certain creatures or targets tend to have a natural (or unnatural) resistance to certain types of damage (even normal) or weaknesses to others.

A weakness doubles the amount of unresisted (by armour) stress to the creature from that type of damage. On the other hand Resistance halves the amount of stress dealt of that type of damage. Some creatures even have immunity to a certain damage type (taking NO damage)...

Mixed damage types

Some weapons have a specific damage type, and a rating (generally 1) of some other damage type, usually because they swapped ammunition. This means the weapon has a mixed damage type, and this works a bit different with resistances.

If a creature has a resistance to one of the mixed damage types, but a weakness against either, it takes full damage (instead of half).

If a creature has an immunity to one of the mixed damage types, but a weakness against the rating, it will take full damage from the rating, and no damage from the other type, immune creatures are FUCKING SCARY!

Firearms

Handguns, rifles, cannons, machineguns... Basically anything that uses an explosive propellant to throw a projectile a certain direction, counts as a firearm, and the following rules will apply.

Firearms, ammo and reloading

Basic ammunition is normally "free", we assume the players brought enough, and a team shares, though long drawn out situations may allow the "Running out of ammunition" aspect or even a situation where the GM calls that you're out of ammo. A good rule of thumb is 4 failed Ammo-rolls (4 reloads).

Reload rolls

Each round you roll your weapon skill (shoot) against the Reload Target number. If you fail you're required to reload your weapon. Most clip-based weapons won't take up much of your time (+1 TN), revolvers, internal magazines, ammo-boxes or belts take up about a round (on a successful skill roll, otherwise it will take another round, this may include swapping of the barrel.

Firearm firing mode

Single-shot

Pump-action, bolt-action, lever-action, revolver are all in the same category. You cannot do suppressing fire or focus fire with these types of weapons.

Semi-automatic

Semi-automatic allows suppressing fire A semi-automatic weapon can only suppress one target instead of an entire zone.

Burst-Fire

Burst-fire allows focus fire. It tends to be an optional toggle on automatic weapons.

Automatic

Allows suppressing fire and focus fire. If the automatic weapon is using a Box or a belt it does not suffer the +2 reload TN for focus fire or suppressing fire.

Special firearm attacks

Instead of a normal attack with your firearm, you can use one of these. Whether your gun can do these depends on its firing action (above).

Suppressing fire

You try to make all opponents in a zone keep their heads down, at the risk of getting it blown off. Choose a zone, every opponent in that zone, gets attacked (once, by you) if they do anything else but defend that round. You can return suppressing fire without getting attacked. This causes your attacks on anyone else, as well as theirs to be at +2TN. Your reload action for that round is at +2TN.

Focus fire

You try to do as much damage as possible, by unloading your gun into your target. Focus fire only works at short range, the same zone or the zone next to you. At longer distances it will work just like suppressing fire. Your reload action for that round is at +2TN unless you used burst fire. If you hit the target you get two free shifts of damage (one shift if you used burst-fire).