Rifleman Archive
Thread: Rifle action equivalent to pistol whip...petition for new action
Is it not possible to give riflemen the ability to hit their target in a melee action with the stock of their rifle?
I'd think it would be just as valid an action as pistol whip, plus give us riflemen some help on the melee side of things.
who's with me?
And I don't think you're the first person to bring this up. Could fit quite easily under the "Rifle Special Abilities" category - it would probably suit that skill branch more than the stuff currently under there. Anyway, I see nothing amiss with this suggestion.
but ur dead in melee anyway so whats the point?
They're not going to put in animations for each type of rifle, then for each time of character, just to add something that would only effect part of the 1% rifle population.
Look beyond the tip of your nose, harp.
We might not be dead in melee if we had some sort of "rifle whip" to buy us some time from the attacker.
And it's 2%.
i agree
if an elite ranged class would have this you think it would be us,c'mon pistols are great at ponit blank then the get a melle attack too(can't wait for the pistoleers to wnader around on our boards)
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I would prefer to swing my T-21 like a baseball bat right into the face of an Imp, thank you. 
Seriously, even if it only did SS1 level dmg, if it added some delay or stunned them or whatever, it might allow us to get out of melee range. And to assure it wouldn't be spammed, it could have some big 'ol time modifier for us. Since we would be buisey running the other way, it wouldn't matter. It would just stop us from becomming a melee class.
I like this idea. It ranks up there with Fortifications and Special Moves. 
If for anything else, see me about fees(Alot cheaper than normal interplanetary transportation). I think that would help us out a lot, except not if the 2.5 melee thing still applied. Then it would be pointless, and I'd be taking a dirtnap. Hmm, we should get a vibro bayonette. Haha. That'd be cool...
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