Weapon conversion question.

[Mahatatain]

Edit:

I decided to break the weapon at the end of the session by having the recoil mechanism fail and barrel warp due to it being used without even so much as cleaning and occasional servicing, requiring that he hunt down another AA-12 to repair it (one of the other players did have Gunsmith but I made it an Impossible roll unless they found replacement parts), and the real kicker He practically dumped his Remington 800 and most of his spare 12-guage ammo just to carry five useless 32-round Frag-12 magazines which are now dead-weight.

I have a vague memory of researching the AA-12 for a Morrow Project style game I was setting up and the player who wanted one found some videos on YouTube where they talked about the reliability of the weapon and how in tests they had fired a vast number of shells with it without ever needing to clean it.

If I'm right and you've got a picky and argumentative player then you might get challenged on that decision so be prepared to trash it in other ways!

[Rockwolf66]

Personally I am a fan of having weapons trashed in a fire fight, Heck drop a grenade round at the character's feet and say that the gun is damaged beyond use if the survive.

[Targan]

Personally I am a fan of having weapons trashed in a fire fight, Heck drop a grenade round at the character's feet and say that the gun is damaged beyond use if the survive.

Absolutely. Also, in RL it's not unheard of for firearms to be struck by bullets during combat and rendered unusable. In-game it can make for a great love-hate situation for a PC - for instance, they lose their prized firearm but upon reflection realise that the bullet that struck their firearm would've hit them in the armpit, missing their kevlar and almost certainly leaving them mortally wounded.

[pmulcahy11b]

Most small arms ammunition drums have to be wound before firing. Anyone know if that's true of the AA-12's drum

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Absolutely. Also, in RL it's not unheard of for firearms to be struck by bullets during combat and rendered unusable. In-game it can make for a great love-hate situation for a PC - for instance, they lose their prized firearm but upon reflection realise that the bullet that struck their firearm would've hit them in the armpit, missing their kevlar and almost certainly leaving them mortally wounded.

And to take that further, use the 2013 rule whereby a Player can choose to have their PC sacrifice one important piece of gear rather than suffer a fatal gunshot.

[Legbreaker]

what a gm need his kicks to...

I am sooooo with you on that!
Make the players work for what they get, don't pull punches (too often) and if the PCs can use special weapons and dirty tactics, so can their opponents!

[waiting4something]

Most small arms ammunition drums have to be wound before firing. Anyone know if that's true of the AA-12's drum

The AA-12 and USAS-12 drums do not need to be wound up. The only shotgun that has a "drum like" magazine that has to be wound is the Striker-12/Streetsweeper shotguns. The Protecta's which are newer versions of the Striker-12 do not have wind them either.