Gun Kata - Terminus Lockdown

[GuardianTempest]

If the enemy is too strong to defeat right now, then weaken him until you can. Founded by a secretive Human organization that employs classified weaponry, Terminus Lockdown secures high-threat areas by debilitating entities to manageable levels. Tech-Use is the key skill to this Gun Kata, as much of its effects are merely the result of attaching gadgetry to existing weapons.

Level 1: Apprentice

(1) Tracker Beacon: You know the location of everyone hit by this attack until the end of the encounter.

- Action (Overwatch): Use Overwatch actions with trick shots. Any attack-related advantages applied to this trick shot are instead applied to the attack triggered by the Overwatch action, which cannot itself be a trick shot. Any skill-based restrictions for Overwatch-based trick shots must be rolled against a TN of 20, rather than the static defense of the target.

Level 2: Initiate

(-2) Component Overload: Your weapon overheats after this attack. It also jams if it can.

(1*) Hobbling Shot: A target that is dealt wounds as a result of this attack takes -1k0 on all tests for one round, for each time this advantage is taken, up to your gunslinger level.

Level 3: Journeyman

(-1) Skill (Tech-Use): As part of this attack, make a Tech-Use check against the target's Static Defense. If it fails, the attack fails.

(1/3) Area of Effect: If this attack is successful, the non-damaging effects of this attack apply to everyone within 3m of the target. For 3 points, this range is increased to 9m.

Level 4: Master

- Extreme Prejudice: Your weapons gain the Brütal property when using Trick Shots with at least one advantage from this Gun Kata.

(2*) Modular Ammunition: For each time this advantage is taken, this attack gains one of the following: Anti-Materiel, Black Smoke, Bouncing Shot, Concussive, Disorienting, Halting, Momentum, Sapping, Seeking, or Tranq. You cannot choose the same property more than once.

Level 5: Grandmaster

(5) Containment Orb: Targets hit by this attack are Immobilized and grant Combat Advantage for one round. If the target is a vehicle with Size 10 or less, its Momentum drops to zero (but doesn't crash) and cannot accelerate for one round instead.

[GuardianTempest]

I remember my rationale for this: I wanted to make a technology counterpart to Elemental Gearbolt's magic. It's still kinda like Elemental Gearbolt, but not really. Back in Zetaboards there was another Gun Kata that uses Overwatch as an action so this is the second to use it as the school action (plus it works with the minor XCOM motif going on). Since it didn't get ported this is now the only kata with Overwatch. Otherwise I would've used Aim instead.

Tracker Beacon is inspired by Monster Hunter's paint bombs. Everything else was just something I came up with that I thought fits the school. Modular Ammunition fits the fluff of using technology in guns. Containment Orb is based on the Ghost's Lockdown ability from StarCraft. When I was young I thought it lasted forever...because I played the campaign with cheats on. Actually on that note I've buffed Containment Orb to have a different effect against vehicles.

[GuardianTempest]

Annoying replaced with Anti-Materiel, Blinding replaced with Black Smoke, Deafening replaced with Concussive, added Bouncing Shot.

[GuardianTempest]

With different Kata disadvantages jamming in some way, I've changed Component Overload so that it actually overloads now.