RE: [BNW] Auto fire question

[Scott Raby <sraby@asymtek.com>]

<snip all the parts that are common sense and agreed upon>

>"You must assign each of the bullets to a potential target before you make 
>your attack roll."

>Egad!  I thought I had it!  Now it says that I have to assign the bullets 
>first, but until this last sentence, I was seemingly free to distribute
them 
>how I wished between targets AFTER I made the attack roll and knew how many

>bullets hit.

>Am I reading something wrong or missing something?  Did Matt accidentally 
>leave this last sentence/paragraph in the rules from an earlier version but

>later decided to change the rule and just forgot to take this out?

>Please help!

Ok here is my take on this (not sure if this was the intention or is
correct, just IMO)
say you have an autofire 3 attack (so you could get 3 max shots off) you
pick a target, then pick another upto 1" away (or a blank space to get to a
new target farther away) etc..
then roll and apply damage etc...

Example1:  3 shots, I pick thug 1 and thug 2 and thug 3 all standing near
oneanother I only get 2 shots, so thug 1 and thug 2 are hit, no problem,
thug 3 got lucky.

Example2: ok the same 3 thugs in a row with a 4th 2" away from thug #3. I
pick thug 3 and the space between them and thug#4 as targets, roll I only
get 2 shots. result is I hit thug 3 and the space (for no effect) and thug 4
got lucky, but I can't change my mind and say well seeing as how I got only
2 shots I think I'll change my target to thug 3 and thug 2 so I get the
extra hit for some effect.

the difference is it keeps you changeing targets after you see how many
shots you to take advantage of all of your shots.

This is how I see it anyway YMMV.