Do shooting skills stack in any way?

[necrobot]

Looking at Fast Shot, Gunfighter, and Rapid Fire, they don't really look like they stack. This kind of makes it a waste when you get these skills together...not a complete waste but I was so disappointed by getting Fast Shot for a ganger who already had Rapid Fire

[Demoulius]

I had a ganger with gun fighter and fast shot with 2 attacks. Sadly he died before I could have a game with 2 pistols in since we dident see anything in the rules that would prevent it...

Gunfighter allows you to fire a pistol in both hands. With 2 attacks you can fire 1 weapon twice. One weapon fires twice, the other just once.

At least that was how we saw it....

[AndrewGPaul]

I was always of the opinion that a model with Gunfighter and Rapid fire or Fast Shot could fire two pistols multiple times each. This may have been backed up by an FAQ, but I'm not sure - we tend not to bother with such things. It's not like it came up more than once in a blue moon anyway.

[Catferret]

From the 2009 FAQ.

Q: What shooting skills stack with each other? [2005]
A: The following shooting skills can be used together: Hip Shooting, Fast Shot, and Gunfighter. Fast Shot and Rapid
Fire do not stack, even if the fighter is stationary. For obvious reasons Hip Shooting and Rapid Fire do not stack. In
addition, each shot is taken one at a time and not altogether. This means that if a weapon runs out of ammunition or
explodes then you loose the remaining shots. Also, if you are using Gunfighter and Rapid Fire and the first shot
explodes and pins you then you will not get to use the remaining shots since you were pinned.

Q: I understand that the Shooting Skill Fastshot cannot stack with the Shooting Skill Rapid Fire, but that Shooting Skill
Fastshot CAN stack with the Shooting Skill Gunfighter, how is this resolved? [2005]
A: This situation would yield one shot per pistol per Attack Characteristic. Remember that to use the Shooting Skill
Gunfighter you must only be armed with pistols and CCWs. An example is a fighter armed with a Bolt Pistol and Auto
Pistol, Shooting Skills Gunfighter and Fast Shot, and an Attack Characteristic of 3 would get three shots with the Bolt
Pistol and three shots with the Auto Pistol. Each shot is worked out one at a time.

Note that this answer is in relation to the Living Rulebook. If you use a different ruleset the answer will likely be different.

[Demoulius]

Oh wow thats insane! Makes the death of my ganger an even bigger loss

[theshoveller]

Note that this answer is in relation to the Living Rulebook. If you use a different ruleset the answer will likely be different.

I remember something similar from the original rules (and WD FAQ c.1996).

[AndrewGPaul]

That'd be where I remember it from, I think - it would have been in a White Dwarf, meaning I'd actually see it. I tend not to bother actually looking for FAQ documents.

Also, as I played it, Fast Shot or Rapid Fire doesn't let you get more than one shot out of a plasma weapon on full power.

[simonr1978]

I think I can recall that in an FAQ/Erratta somewhere too, the same applies with the Plasma Pistol in Close Combat. Basically regardless of anything else with a Plasma weapon if you choose to use full power you get one shot then that's it for that turn and the next.